Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie - Centralny System Uwierzytelniania
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Break-up of Yugoslavia and the Memory Politics of the Region

Informacje ogólne

Kod przedmiotu: CES-GL-BreakYugosl
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: (brak danych) / (brak danych)
Nazwa przedmiotu: Break-up of Yugoslavia and the Memory Politics of the Region
Jednostka: Instytut Studiów Europejskich
Grupy:
Punkty ECTS i inne: 5.00 Podstawowe informacje o zasadach przyporządkowania punktów ECTS:
  • roczny wymiar godzinowy nakładu pracy studenta konieczny do osiągnięcia zakładanych efektów uczenia się dla danego etapu studiów wynosi 1500-1800 h, co odpowiada 60 ECTS;
  • tygodniowy wymiar godzinowy nakładu pracy studenta wynosi 45 h;
  • 1 punkt ECTS odpowiada 25-30 godzinom pracy studenta potrzebnej do osiągnięcia zakładanych efektów uczenia się;
  • tygodniowy nakład pracy studenta konieczny do osiągnięcia zakładanych efektów uczenia się pozwala uzyskać 1,5 ECTS;
  • nakład pracy potrzebny do zaliczenia przedmiotu, któremu przypisano 3 ECTS, stanowi 10% semestralnego obciążenia studenta.
Język prowadzenia: angielski

Zajęcia w cyklu "Semestr zimowy 2023/2024" (zakończony)

Okres: 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28
Wybrany podział planu:
Przejdź do planu
Typ zajęć:
Wykład, 30 godzin, 20 miejsc więcej informacji
Koordynatorzy: Haris Dajč
Prowadzący grup: Haris Dajč
Strona przedmiotu: https://pegaz.uj.edu.pl/course/view.php?id=617691
Lista studentów: (nie masz dostępu)
Zaliczenie: Przedmiot - Egzamin
Dodatkowe strony WWW:

(tylko po angielsku) Please find all the deatils about the course in the Pegaz.

Efekty kształcenia:

(tylko po angielsku) After the successful completion of the course student will be able to understand historical processes that led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and Memory politics of the region with the special focus on former Yugoslav states. They should be to demonstrate 1. knowledge and understanding of processes that led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and post-conflict transition of the entire space; 2. knowledge of the Cold war, a greater understanding of its historical and precipitating factors, and its legacy; 3. understanding of the concept of rise of radical nationalism and ethnic conflicts, and understanding of the circumstances under which it can occur, the factors that may precipitate it, and its legacy; 4. a greater awareness of prejudice, discrimination, and racism; 5. Understanding of the processes of long-term historical structures in the context of development of process of disintegration of Yugoslavia and also processes ; 6. an enhanced ability to think critically, and write and speak effectively, about issues related to the processes of disintegration and transition, nationalism, populist political parties, societies of late socialist Yugoslav period and autocratic political leaders. The course will broaden students’ knowledge of the European history, identity and contemporary challenges.

Wymagania wstępne:

(tylko po angielsku) Knowledge of 19th and 20th century European History.

Metody sprawdzania i kryteria oceny efektów kształcenia uzyskanych przez studentów:

(tylko po angielsku) Assessment

The final grade will be calculated using the following elements:


1. Students presentation – 50%

2. Final exam – short answer questions – 50%




Terminy egzaminów i zaliczeń:

(tylko po angielsku) In the second half of the Janulary.The date will be confirmed in January.


Metody dydaktyczne:

(tylko po angielsku) Transfer of knowledge – Lectures


The course will constitute 30 teaching hours. It will be taught mainly as a lecture course, although discussions, questions and presentations are required. Within the list of suggested reference books included in this syllabus are two titles from which students will need to read selected materials.

Bilans punktów ECTS:

(tylko po angielsku) 5 ECTS

Wymiar, zasady i forma odbywania praktyk:

(tylko po angielsku) Classroom 407

Sylabus przedmiotu dla studentów rozpoczynających studia od roku akademickiego 19/20 lub później:

(tylko po angielsku)

Session 1 (date 11/10)

Introduction class.

Formation of national states in the Balkans.

Historical background for the formation of First and Second Yugoslavia – Timeframe

Legacy of authoritarian systems in 20th century. Formal institutions and traditional societies of the Balkans. Balkan xenophobia.


Session 2 (date 25/10)

Yugoslavia between the East and the West. Yugoslav socialism and the breakup with USSR. Nonaligned movement and internal crises in 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The cult of Tito and the death of the ‘king’. The Yugoslav identities and Yugoslav culture, Red and Black wave in Yugoslav film.


Session 3 (self-study 8/11)

The start of Yugoslav disintegration, 1980s: political arguments and political preparations and the decline of the collective leadership in Yugoslavia. Religious communities and cultures of the late socialism. Political decay, crises, and polarization. 'Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution' (1987–1989). The role of the JNA and the strengthening of the nationalism among Jugoslav nations, the role of intellectuals.


Session 4 (date 16/11)

The end of the Cold War and its consequences in the former Socialist Europe.

Search for new identities and memories. Creation of different nationalistic myths. The role of churches. The reinvention of history. Intellectuals and their role in creation of new narratives. Diasporas and their influences.


Session 5 (date 29/11)

The end of the Second Yugoslavia (SFRJ). Armed conflict. Ethnic cleansing and genocide. Yugoslav controversies, NATO intervention. The conflict in Kosovo and its results. Name dispute of FYROM. Albanians in former Yugoslav space.


Session 6. (date 6/12)

Milosevic’s War Against Serbian Society. Protests in 96-97 and in 2000. The main political parties: nationalism and egalitarianism. Changes in former republics. The first transition after 2000, government of Zoran Djindjic. The Croatian post-war society.


Session 7. (20/12 online MS Teams)

Western Balkans transition in 2000s after Thessaloniki summit in 2003 to new states. The role of the EU and NATO. Russian, Turkish and Chinese influence. Useful minorities within nationalistic policies of former Yugoslav states.


Session 8. (date 3/01 online MS Teams)

Memory Politics and Populism in South-eastern Europe. Misuse of history, distortion of Holocaust and its local misuse. Case of Jasenovac and Sajmiste. Dealing with the Past in the Balkans. Glorification of convicted war crime criminals. The alienation of post Yugoslav societies.


Session 9 (date 10/01)

Renationalization Memory in post Yugoslav space. The cult of self-victimization.

The role of the church in Montenegro 2020. Identity dispute in North Macedonia: language and history. Bosnia and Herzegovina, conflicting memory, and the ongoing post-war trauma. Missuses of popular culture and public space. Politicisation of sport.


Session 10 (date 17/01)

Consequences of the Memory politics in the Region. Growth of different national stereotypes in the context of the European crisis. Militarization of societies. Russian influence and Kosovo gambit. How the misuse of history is use as a pretext for wars in 21st century Europe.


Spare session (date 24/01)


Skrócony opis: (tylko po angielsku)

The main aim of the course is to teach students to get a critical opinion on Yugoslav break-up, a process still going on and it the context of the new Cold War and frozen conflicts and wars in Europe, that process has additional importance. Yugoslav crisis is linked with global events, i.e. Yugoslavia is studied within international context. USA, EU and Russia were all interested in course and result of the crisis, and in time became its active participants. The process of post-conflict transition has been lasting over 25 years and is still making one Western Balkans one of the least developed parts of Europe. Memory politics of the region and misuse and abuse of history made fertile ground for the growth of populism.

Pełny opis: (tylko po angielsku)

The main aim of the course is to teach students to get a critical opinion on Yugoslav break-up, a process still going on and it the context of the new Cold War and frozen conflicts and wars in Europe, that process has additional importance. Yugoslav crisis is linked with global events, i.e. Yugoslavia is studied within international context. USA, EU and Russia were all interested in course and result of the crisis, and in time became its active participants. The process of post-conflict transition has been lasting over 25 years and is still making one Western Balkans one of the least developed parts of Europe. Memory politics of the region and misuse and abuse of history made fertile ground for the growth of populism.

Literatura: (tylko po angielsku)

Essential reading materials:

Ingrao, Charles and Emmert, Thomas A. ed. Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative (Second Edition). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative (Second Edition), 2012. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/28/

Taylor McConnell (2018): Memory abuse, violence and the dissolution of Yugoslavia: a theoretical framework for understanding memory in conflict, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2018.1508334

Đorđe Tomić, From "Yugoslavism" to (Post-)Yugoslav Nationalisms: Understanding Yugoslav Identities, in European National Identities, Routledge 2014.

Dajč, Haris. Distortion of History in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Cases of Staro Sajmište and Jasenovac, ACTA HISTORIAE MEDICINAE STOMATOLOGIAE PHARMACIAE MEDICINAE VETERINARIAE, XLI/ 2022

https://actahistorica.com/acta-historiae-medicinae/xli2022/

Židek, Nikolina. “A day of unfinished mourning: historicizing commemorative practices of Bleiburg among the Croatian diaspora in Argentina”, Memory Studies Journal, 13(6), 1081-1096. 2020

Mazower, Mark. The Balkans. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005.

Ramet, Sabrina. Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic, Vestview press, 2018.

(Southeast European Studies) Jody Jensen (editor) - Memory Politics and Populism in Southeastern Europe-Routledge (2022)

McGlynn Jade & Jelena Đureinović Jelena (2023) The alliance of victory: Russo- Serbian memory diplomacy, Memory Studies 2023, Vol. 16(2) 227–242. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980211073108

Tamara P. Trošt & Lea David (2022) Renationalizing Memory in the Post-Yugoslav Region, Journal of Genocide Research, 24:2, 228-240, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2021.1968852

Working Paper no. 11: Populist political parties of former Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall https://populism-europe.com/poprebel/poprebel-working-papers/

Yugoslavia from the Historical Perspective, 2017 (group of authors)

Additional readings:

Ash, Timothy Garton. Facts are Subversive. Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name, (New Haven-London: Yale UP: 2009), pp. 3-25, ‘The Strange Toppling of Slobodan Milošević’

Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković: The Continuity of Populism in Serbia: From the 19th to the 21st century in CONTEMPORARY POPULISM AND ITS POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES Discourses and Practices in Central and South-Eastern Europe, edited by Haris Dajč, Isidora Jarić, Ljiljana Dobrovšak

https://www.pilar.hr/2022/12/objavljena-knjiga-contemporary-populism-and-its-political-consequences/

Dragovic – Soso, Jasna. Rethinking Yugoslavia: Serbian Intellectuals and the ‘National Question’ in Historical Perspective. Contemporary European History, 13, 2 (2004), pp. 170–184

Gallagher, Tom. Balkans after the Cold War” from tyranny to tragedy. London, 2005.

Gallagher, Tom. The Balkans in the New Millennium

In the shadow of war and peace. London, 2005.

Glenny, Misha. The Balkans. Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999. New York: Viking, 2000

Glenny, Misha. The Fall of Yugoslavia, Penguin Books, 1996.

Nikolayenko, Olena. Origins of the movement's strategy: The case of the Serbian youth movement Otpor. International Political Science Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2013. 140-158

Ramet, Sabina. Christine M. Hassenstab, Ola Listhaug. Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States: Accomplishment, Setbacks, Challenges since 1990. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Ramet, Sabina. Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia at Peace and at War: Selected Writings, 1983—2007. Berlin & Münster: Lit Verlag, 2008

Ramet, Sabrina P. The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006,

Stokes, Gale, John Lampe, Dennison Rusinow, Julie Mostov. Instant History: Understanding the Wars of Yugoslav Succession. Slavic Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, Spring, 1996, 136-160

Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia at Peace and at War: Selected Writings, 1983—2007. Berlin & Münster: Lit Verlag, 2008

Subotić, Jelena. Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 2019

Todorova, Maria. Imagining the Balkans, New York, Oxford 1997.

Aline Sierp and Christian Karner, National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis, National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) 1–9

Norman G. Finkelstein, Beyond chutzpah : on the misuse of anti-semitism

and the abuse of history. University of California Press, 2008.

Zinovia Lialiouti and Giorgos Bithymitris, A nation under attack: perceptions of enmity and victimhood in the context of the Greek crisis, National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) 53–71

Židek, Nikolina. “Homeland celebrations far away from home: the case of the Croatian diaspora in Argentina”, in Pavlaković, V. Pauković, D. (eds.) Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia: Political Rituals and the Cultural Memory of Twentieth Century Traumas, London: Routledge, 211-224. ISBN: 9781138504011. 2019

Yugoslavia: from the Beginning to the End – Exhibition in the Museum of Yugoslavia (pdf available).

Films:

Quo Vadis, Aida? (d. Jasmina Zbanic 2020)

The Shutka Book of Records (d. Aleksandar Marić)

The Death of Yugoslavia, a BBC documentary

Uwagi: (tylko po angielsku)

Dates for classes are visible in the syllabus of the course.

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