Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia
| Titel: | Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Manchester : Manchester Univ. Press, 2003 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource, 321 S. |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
New Approaches to Conflict Analysis |
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| ISBN: | 0719064678 |
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Abstract: "Balkan Holocausts compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analysing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis. Offering a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the internet, the book discusses how and why the internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. No other study has fully examined the importance of the Internet as a propaganda tool in wartime. Finally, Balkan Holocausts offers a theme by theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals. Many of the |
