The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War: Identity, Conflict, and Violence in the Former Yugoslavia

2003 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Robert Legvold ◽  
Franke Wilmer
2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Cynthia Weber

Conceptualizing the sovereign nation-state remains a core concern in the discipline of international relations (IR). Yet, as the volumes by Sarah Owen Vandersluis and Beate Jahn demonstrate, the theoretical location of this conceptual debate is shifting. Questions of identity, like those regarding sovereign nation-states, were answered in the 1990s with reference to terms like social construction. In the new millennium, “the social” is increasingly joined by “the cultural” as an intellectual marker of how serious IR scholars must pose questions of identity. Why this shift? And what difference does it make to our understandings of sovereign nation-states, not to mention IR theory more generally?


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 293-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alda Cristina Silva da Costa ◽  
Thaís Luciana Corrêa Braga ◽  
Ana Caroliny do Nascimento Pinho ◽  
Nathan Nguangu Kabuenge

Os conflitos agrários na Amazônia configuram-se como um grave problema de violência, proveniente da concentração da propriedade da terra, da formação de latifúndios e do assassinato de trabalhadores. O artigo objetiva compreender a construção social da violência pelo Correio do Tocantins, jornal impresso produzido em Marabá, cidade no sudeste do Estado do Pará. Como postura téorico-metodológica, recorreu-se à hermenêutica de profundidade (THOMPSON, 2011), que propõe a (re)interpretação de construções simbólicas em contextos socialmente estruturados. A análise de seis notícias publicadas na primeira edição do periódico evidencia a atuação dos pistoleiros como colaboradores da polícia e responsabiliza os migrantes pelos crimes.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Violência; conflitos agrários; Correio do Tocantins; Amazônia paraense; hermenêutica de profundidade.     ABSTRACT Agrarian conflicts in the Amazon are a serious problem of violence, resulting from the concentration of land ownership, of the formation of latifundia and of the murder of workers. The article aims to understand the social construction of violence by Correio do Tocantins, a newspaper produced in Marabá, city in the southeast of the state of Pará. As a theoretical-methodological posture, depth hermeneutics was used (THOMPSON, 2011), which proposes (re)interpretation of symbolic constructions in socially structured contexts. The analysis of six news published in the first edition of the journal highlights the role of the gunmen as police collaborators and makes the migrants responsible for the crimes.   KEYWORDS: Violence; agrarian conflicts; Correio do Tocantins; Pará Amazon; depth hermeneutics.     RESUMEN Los conflictos agrarios en la Amazonía se configuran como un grave problema de violencia, proveniente de la concentración de la propiedad de la tierra, de la formación de latifundios y del asesinato de trabajadores. El artículo tiene como objetivo comprender la construcción social de la violencia a partir del Correio do Tocantins, periódico impreso en la ciudad de Marabá, ubicada en el sudeste del Estado de Pará. Como postura teórica-metodológica, se recurrió a la hermenéutica de profundidad (THOMPSON, 2011), que propone la (re)interpretación de construcciones simbólicas en contextos socialmente estructurados. El análisis de seis noticias publicadas en la primera edición del periódico evidencia la actuación de sicarios como colaboradores de la policía y responsabiliza a los migrantes por los crímenes.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Violencia; conflictos agrarios; Correio do Tocantins; Amazonía paraense; hermenéutica de profundidad.


2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-205
Author(s):  
William H. Clune

This paper describes a topology of legal thought and the social conditions (the larger social construction of reality) of which that topology, that thought, is a component. Part I is a description of the structure of legal thought; Part II of the social conditions (a theory of the state, or political economy). The Conclusion considers the place of traditional legal practice on a new landscape.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Miklós Bakk

Abstract The study aims to give a comprehensive explanation on how regional construction took place in the European history related to the state-building processes and how the historical heritage of the European state-construction influences today the social construction of the regions. With regard to the state-building processes, the study started from Hechter’s model of ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ state and his interpretation on the relationship between core regions and peripheries. This model operates with the centralizing power of the state, but from the last decades of the 20th century it was proved via the ‘new regionalism’ that social construction processes became more relevant in shaping new subnational regions. This last aspect is described by Paasi, and the study argues for a new concept of regional identity as a territorial ‘product’ of interacting governance and local society.


Sociologija ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-324
Author(s):  
Djokica Jovanovic

This text discusses some aspects of commemorative culture in our society. On one hand, commemorative culture belongs to the batch of ideas that make up the corpus of ideological ritualization of the past that divinizes the state (or, more precisely, divinizes a particular ideological order). However, the established commemorative culture in our country has been intrinsically fenced up by the nature of the ex-Yugoslav wars during the end of the previous century. It is essential to note that Serbia was not officially a participant in the wars which prevented the recognition of the social status of the people who actually took part in the wars. This fact further meant that it was even less likely that these individuals would be able to make their social position socially institutionalized which deprived them of their hard-earned social status, creating all kinds of unsolved social issues. These individuals remain unacknowledged nowadays as well. Those, as such, do not belong to commemorative culture. This is, at the same time, the rationale for the official non-recognition of the events and dates that marked the wars leading to the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. The author of this paper thinks that it is necessary that a consensus be reached within the virtual boundaries of the now non-existent country about the nature of its commemorative culture. Only In such culture can all the newly founded states and relevant individuals be firmly grounded.


Author(s):  
Viviane E. Dittrich

Viviane Dittrich re-visits the institutional endeavour of leaving a legacy in light of completion, closure, and continuation. Her contribution explores how the proliferation of tribunal-driven legacy projects and efforts of documentation, memorialization, and legacy building has shaped and continues shaping the actual legacy process. The chapter shows that legacy formation is a continuous process, placing the social construction of legacies at the centre of the analysis. The chapter sets the approaches of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in perspective in relation to its Completion Strategy and the ongoing work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. In view of the impending closure of the Tribunal and the spectre of organizational death, the chapter discusses legacy building in terms of language, conceptualization, and institutionalization.


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