VUKOVAR 91' I HRVATSKI NACIONALNI IDENTITET
VUKOVAR 91' AND THE CROATIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
Author(s): Ivan RogićSubject(s): Military history, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Vukavar; National identity; Croatia; War;
Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes ways in which the collective designative and semantic structure of the Vukovar events have been formed. By examining the designative structure, the author concludes that the events in Vukovar still do not bear other designators than those of a conventional, tautological and documentary nature. Therefore, he concludes that the Vukovar drama is not yet designated within the collective Croatian remembrance. In the process of analyzing modes of semantic field formation, the author suggests two types of opposition. In the first type of opposition changes permitting the opposition to be transformed into the domination of the stronger side are being developed. Due to this mechanism, Vukovar is semantically defined as the town-victor, town-judge, town-hero, and finally as the town founded on reversible history, in which all damage is rectifiable.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 2/1993
- Issue No: 04+05
- Page Range: 501-519
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Croatian