Etnicizacija čišćenja u reči i nedelu. Represija i njena naučna legitimizacija
Ethnic Clean sings in Words and Deeds. Repression and its Scientific Legitimisation

Summary/Abstract: The article is researching on the development of the phrase "ethnic cleansing" in Serbian language. It furthers the existing research, which is mostly situating the phrase in the context of the Yugoslav crisis and war in Bosnia. The first usages of the phrase "ethnically pure" are located in the projects of national homogenization made in the course of the Second World War. They are interpreted as the outcome of the long process in which the term cleansing, used in the second half of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century to denote the removal of the political obstacles and opponents, got ethnicised under the influence of the human sciences. This explosive cocktail of power and knowledge, science and violence, typical for high modernity, is tracked in the interwar plans for the solution of the issue of minorities. Second World War is seen as a catalyser which provided the context for the articulation of the projects of the forced homogenization of society, in which the minority groups seemed an obstacle to be removed.

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