National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity, and Justice in Bosnia
By (Author) David Campbell
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st September 1998
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
302
Paperback
328
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
How did Bosnia, once a polity of intersecting and overlapping identities, come to be understood as an intractable ethnic problem David Campbell pursues this question - and its implications for the politics of community, democracy, justice, and multiculturalism - through readings of media and academic reprsentations of the conflict in Bosnia. This text offers a re-thinking of the meaning of ethnic/nationalist violence and a critique of the impoverished discourse of identity politics that crippled the international response to the Bosnian crisis.