Bilić, B;
(2013)
Between fragmenting and multiplying: scale-shift processes in Serbian and Croatian antiwar activisms.
Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity
, 41
(5)
801 - 814.
10.1080/00905992.2012.747505.
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Abstract
This paper follows the almost contemporaneous emergence of the two primary antiwar initiatives in Belgrade and Zagreb to explore how they acted as hotbeds from which permanent human rights organizations appeared in the newly created nation-states. Drawing mostly upon in-depth interviews with antiwar activists from Serbia and Croatia, I argue that the dominant patterns of protest expansion were different in the two countries. While cooperation and tensions existed within both antiwar groups, the Antiwar Campaign of Croatia acted as a broker, leading toward the multiplication of civic initiatives; on the other hand, the Belgrade Center for Antiwar Action was characterized by ideological, professional, and personal divisions, which caused a rapid fragmentation of antiwar undertakings. This paper outlines the main reasons for such expansion patterns (scale-shift processes) and discusses them in the light of recent theoretical advances in political contention studies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between fragmenting and multiplying: scale-shift processes in Serbian and Croatian antiwar activisms |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00905992.2012.747505 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2012.747505 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| Keywords: | Antiwar Campaign of Croatia, Center for Antiwar Action, Croatia, Serbia, scale shift |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457268 |
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