Moralizing about Scholarship about Yugoslavia

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 182-193

  Hayden, Robert M ^a  

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1. This writer, admittedly, was an exception, having done a dissertation based on fieldwork in India; but by the time the wars began I had done research on Yugoslavia for almost ten years, had lived there for more than three of them, and was highly competent in Serbo-Croatian.
2. Tzvetan Todorov, Hope and Memory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003). 189-189.
3. Tzvetan Todorov, Hope and Memory (2003) Ibid., 192.
4. Sabrina P. Ramet, "Revisiting the Horrors of Bosnia: New Books about the War," East European Politics and Societies 14: 2 (2000). 475-486. This book review was the first published version of much of the first chapter of the book.
5. The book review Sabrina P. Ramet, East European Politics and Societies (ibid., 478) had it that authors of this camp "tend to be more sympathetic to Milošević, Karadžić and their collaborators."
6. Steven Burg and Paul Shoup, The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina ( Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999 ).
7. See Matthew Collin, This Is Serbia Calling: Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Belgrade's Underground Resistance (London: Serpent's Tail, 2001). see also Eric Gordy, The Culture of Power in Serbia (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press); and Robert Thomas, The Politics of Serbia in the 1990s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).
8. As Robert M. Hejden, Skice za Podeljenu Kuću (Beograd, Serbia: KVS/Samizdat Free B92, 2003).
9. Burg and Shoup, The War in Bosnta-Herzegovina, 11-14.
10. Burg and Shoup, The War in Bosnta-Herzegovina Ibid., 184.
11. Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Meštrović, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (New York: New York University Press, 1996). 5-5.
12. Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Meštrović, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia Ibid., 15.
13. Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Meštrović, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia Ibid., 16.
14. Michael Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). xiii - xiii.
15. Cushman and Meštrović, This Time We Knew, 37, n. 62.
16. Cushman and Meštrović, This Time We Knew Ibid., 25.
17. Cushman and Meštrović, This Time We Knew Ibid., 37, n. 62
18. ; the reference is to Bette Denich, "Dismembering Yugoslavia: Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide," American Ethnologist 21 (1994): 367-90, a well respected article
19. (see, e.g., Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies [New York: Columbia University Press, 1999], 100-101). Two years later, in a monograph series edited by Ramet, Cushman did publish an analysis of Denich's paper, but in a published response, Denich argued with great specificity that Cushman had distorted her arguments and attributed to her positions that she did not take
20. (see Bette Denich, "Debate or Defamation? Comment on the publication of Cushman's 'Anthropology and Genocide in the Balkans,'" Anthropological Theory 5:4[2005]: 555-58).
21. As she put it, "My best defense against Cushman's accusations is simply the text of my own article" (p. 556). This exchange between one of Ramet's favored universal moralists and an author whose work is criticized on moral grounds by that person is highly revealing of the scholarly problems inherent in moralizing discourses.
22. Ibid., 37, n. 62; the reference is to Bette Denich, "Dismembering Yugoslavia: Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide," American Ethnologist 21 (1994): 367-90, a well respected article (see, e.g., Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies [New York: Columbia University Press, 1999], 100-101). Two years later, in a monograph series edited by Ramet, Cushman did publish an analysis of Denich's paper, but in a published response, Denich argued with great specificity that Cushman had distorted her arguments and attributed to her positions that she did not take (see Bette Denich, "Debate or Defamation? Comment on the publication of Cushman's 'Anthropology and Genocide in the Balkans,'" Anthropological Theory 5:4[2005]: 555-58). As she put it, "My best defense against Cushman's accusations is simply the text of my own article" (p. 556). This exchange between one of Ramet's favored universal moralists and an author whose work is criticized on moral grounds by that person is highly revealing of the scholarly problems inherent in moralizing discourses.
23. James J. Sadkovich, The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, 1991-95 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998). xvii - xvii.
24. Robert Hayden, "Constitutional Nationalism in the Formerly Yugoslav Republics", Slavic Review 51: 4 (1992). 654-673. Since this article says (at p. 660) that "the [1990] Serbian constitution has provided scope for the establishment of a nationalist regime fully as oppressive of minorities as those of any of the other ex-Yugoslav republics," it is difficult to see how it is "pro-Serbian."
25. Sadkovich, The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, xx, n. 27.
26. Sudetic was one of the few Western journalists in Yugoslavia during the wars who spoke Serbo-Croatian, and he wrote a superb, detailed book on Srebrenica, drawing partly on the experiences of his wife's family there. Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia ( New York: Penguin, 1998 ).
27. Sadkovich, The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, 14.
28. Sadkovich, The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia Ibid., 14.
29. Sadkovich, The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia Ibid., 131.
30. Sylvia Poggioli, "Scouts without Compasses," Nieman Reports, fall 1993, http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/99-4_00-1NR/Poggioli_Scouts. html.
31. Sadkovich, The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, xvii.
32. The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia Ibid., 153.
33. Susan S. Woodward, Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War ( Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1995 ).
34. Susan S. Woodward, Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War Ibid., 13
35. as quoted by Ramet, Thinking about Yugoslavia, 89.
36. Ibid., 13, as quoted by Ramet, Thinking about Yugoslavia, 89.
37. Emil Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology, translated by John A Spalding and George Simpson ( New York: Free Press, 1897/1951 ).
38. Cushman and Meštrović, This Time We Knew, 21-31.
39. Sumantra Bose, Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 163-163.