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Producing and Cracking Kosovo Myths. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Emergence and Critique of a New Ethnonationalism, 1984 – 1990

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  • Stefanov Nenad

    (Interdisciplinary Centre “Border Crossings – Crossing Borders. Berlin Centre for Transnational Border Research”, Humboldt University of Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117Berlin, Germany)

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The author analyses how the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) has gained significance for the new leadership of the League of Communists in Serbia since the mid-1980s. With its authority as a scientific institution, the SANU legitimised the political measures implemented to centralise and consolidate authoritarian rule. The new perception of the Yugoslav crisis, marked by ethnicisation and self-victimisation, used Kosovo as the focus and became the dominant stance on the war and authoritarian rule of the 1990s. However, as the author shows, a critique of these developments needs to be included in the analysis in order to adequately grasp the tense dynamics.

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  • Stefanov Nenad, 2021. "Producing and Cracking Kosovo Myths. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Emergence and Critique of a New Ethnonationalism, 1984 – 1990," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 69(2-3), pages 335-354, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:69:y:2021:i:2-3:p:335-354:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2021-0044
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