The Past in Exile: Serbian Long-distance Nationalism and Identity in the Wake of the Third Balkan WarLIT Verlag Münster, 2007 - 254 páginas In this study of identity politics, memory and long-distance nationalism among Serbian migrants in California, the author examines the complicated ways in which visions of the past are used to form Diaspora subjects and make claims to the homeland in the present. Drawing on extended fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area community, she shows how the Yugoslav wars generated a revaluation Serbian history and personal life stories, resulting in the strengthening of ethnic identity. Nevertheless, strategies for dealing with rupture and change also included contestation of exile nationalism. |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 22 - Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent.
Página 16 - For while technically a citizen of the state in which he comfortably lives, but to which he may feel little attachment, he finds it tempting to play identity politics by participating (via propaganda, money, weapons, any way but voting) in the conflicts of his imagined Heimat - now only fax-time away.