• DOI:10.2753/IJS0020-7659370103
Corpus ID: 143910006

Challenging the Past: Serbian and Croatian Aggressor-Victim Narratives

@article{Goedl2007ChallengingTP,
  title={Challenging the Past: Serbian and Croatian Aggressor-Victim Narratives},
  author={Doris Goedl},
  journal={International Journal of Sociology},
  year={2007},
  volume={37},
  pages={43 - 57}
}

Doris Goedl

Published 2007

Sociology

International Journal of Sociology

Using the example of former Yugoslavia, specifically the Serbian and Croatian nations, this article examines the transformation of collective memory of aggression and victimhood by focusing on the content of national narratives. The article begins by examining narratives developed at the founding of Yugoslavia and proceeds to trace the reinterpretation of these narratives as a function of their political instrumentality—especially in Serbia and Croatia—for respective nationalist projects. In… CONTINUE READING

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