Civic and Uncivic Values: Serbia in the Post-Milošević Era

✍ Scribed by Ola Listhaug (editor); Sabrina P. Ramet (editor); Dragana Dulic (editor)

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 467
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Discusses Serbia’s struggle for democratic values after the fall of the Milošević regime provoked by the NATO war, and after the trauma caused by the secession of Kosovo. Are the value systems of the post-Milošević era true stumbling blocks of a delayed transition of this country? Seventeen contributors from Norway, Serbia, Italy, Germany, Poland and some other European countries covered a broad range of topics in order to provide answers to this question. The subjects of their investigations were national myths and symbols, history textbooks, media, film, religion, inter-ethnic dialogue, transitional justice, political party agendas and other related themes. The authors of the essays represent different scholarly disciplines whose theoretical conceptions and frameworks are employed in order to analyze two alternative value systems in Serbia: liberal, cosmopolitan and civic on the one hand, and traditional, provincial, nationalist on the other.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Part One – Introduction
1. Serbia’s Corrupt Path to the Rule of Law: An Introduction
2. Serbia after Milošević: The Rebirth of a Nation
Part Two – Political and Social Values
3. Serbian Civic Values in a European Context
4. The EU in the Values and Expectations of Serbia: Challenges, Opportunities, and Confrontations
5. Orthodox Values and Modern Necessities: Serbian Orthodox Clergy and Laypeople on Democracy, Human Rights, Transition, and Globalization
6. The Social Values of Serbian Youth
Part Three – Media and Films
7. The Post-2000 Media Situation in Serbia
8. We All Live Two Lives: Serbian Cinema & Changing Values in Post Yugoslavia
Part Four – Schools, Gender, and Nationalism
9. Value Changes in the Interpretations of History in Serbia
10. Nationalism as a Religion: Examples from Contemporary Serbia
11. Engendering Transitional Justice: Political Responsibility in Serbia
Part Five – Kosovo as Myth and as Politics
12. Dead Kings and National Myths: Why Myths of Founding and Martyrdom Are Important
13. Discursive Practices and Semiotic Representations: Serbian Rhetoric about Montenegro and Kosovo
14. Kosovo in Serbian Politics since Milošević
15. Inter-ethnic Dialogue between Serbs and Albanians in Serbia/Kosovo, 1996–2008
Part Six – Conclusion
16. The Power of Values (A conclusion)
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Subject Index