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Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other

Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate (2009), xii, 270 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 245-258, index

ISBN 978-0-7546-7630-0 (ebook); 978-1-282-05406-6 (online); 978-0-7546-7629-4 (pbk)

Discourse and Violent Conflict: Representations of ‘Self’–‘Other’ in the Yugoslav Successor States / Pål Kolstø, 1
1 Media Discourse and the Politics of Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Yugoslavia / Tarik Jusic, 21
2 Reorganizing the Identification Matrix: Televisual Construction of Collective Identities in the Early Phase of Yugoslav Disintegration / Sabina Mihelj, Veronika Bajt and Miloš Pankov, 39
3 Foreclosing the Other, Building the War: A Comparative Analysis of Croatian and Serbian Press. Discourses During the Conflict in Croatia / Ivana Ðuricand Vladimir Zoric, 61
4 Events and Sites of Difference: Marking Self and Other in Kosovo / Nita Luci and Predrag Markovic, 83
5 The Yugoslav Succession Wars and the War for Symbolic Hegemony / Jovo Bakic and Gazela Pudar, 105
6 Relations between Montenegro and Serbia from 1991 to 2006: An Analysis of Media Discourse / Ðorðe Pavicevic and Srðan Ðurovic, 129
7 Spinning Out of Control: Media Coverage in the Bosnian Conflict / Michal Sladecek and Amer Dzihana, 153
8 'Spinning Out of Control': Mutual Reinforcement Discourse in Macedonia? / Zhidas Daskalovski, 173
9 The Semantics of Silence, Violence and Social Memory: 'The Storm' in the Croatian and Serbian Press / Gordana Deric, 195
10 Self and Other in Balkan (Post-)War Cinema / Nedin Mutic, 215
Conclusion: Discourse and Violence / Pal Kolsto, 235