Artikel
Holy Mary and Medjugorje's rocketeers : the local logic of an ethnic cleansing process in Bosnia
Verfasst von:
Bax, Mart
in:
Copenhagen:
2000
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45 - 58 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bax, Mart |
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| Jahr: | 2000 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| There is a tendency among social scientists and others to interpret the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia Hercegovina as the result of a political policy carefully orchestrated from above and systematically carried out. Whatever eruptions of war violence might deviate from this interpretation are generally viewed as primitive balkanism, pointless acts, banditism or mental aberrations. Terms of this kind reflect an uncritical acceptance of a central or national leader perspective, dismissing everything that does not go according to plan as deviant, and denying the significance of specific local and regional circumstances or at any rate final result can be seen as the ethnic homogenization of a region, but only part of its dynamics can be attributed to a policy implemented from above. Rather, its course can be traced back largely to local vendettas and a long-standing conflict between Franciscan friars and diocesan priests. The case illustrates that a systematic study from below is crutial to a better understanding of the dynamics and the developmental logic of processes of ethnic cleansing. The article concludes with some theoretical thoughts which fit into the current debate on civilizing and decivilizing processes. | |
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