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Race and the Yugoslav region, postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?, Catherine Baker

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non fiction

Race and the Yugoslav region

electronic resource

10302553861167564825

Catherine Baker

Theory for a global ageOpen Access e-Books

postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?

This book explains theoretical work in postcolonial and postsocialist studies to offer a novel and distinctive insight into how Yugoslavia is configured by, and through, race. It presents the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally in Yugoslavia. The book provides a discussion on the critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of 'race in translation' and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. It considers the geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity; and transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement. The book also considers the post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the refugee crisis. It elaborates how often-neglected aspects of the history of nationhood and migration reveal connections that tie the region into the global history of race. The book also explains the linkage between ethnic exclusivism and territory in the ethnopolitical logic of the Bosnian conflict and in the internationally mediated peace agreements that enshrined it: 'apartheid cartography'. Race and whiteness remained perceptible in post-war Bosnian identity discourses as new, open-ended forms of post-conflict international intervention developed.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region?. 1 Popular music and the 'cultural archive'. 2 Histories of ethnicity, nation and migration. 3 Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism. 4 Postsocialism, borders, security and race after Yugoslavia. Conclusion. Index