Dekonstrukcija ‘znanstveno utemeljenih nepravdi’: o poslijeratnim traumatiziranim populacijama ‘kvaritelja’ u Hrvatskoj
Deconstruction of ‘Scientifically Based Injustices’: About Post-War Traumatized Populations of ‘Spoilers’ in Croatia

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary Croatian social reality is determined by the epistemological and policy frameworks developed to understand and care for the post-war Yugoslav ‘traumatized citizens’ Knowledge produced in that respect exerts powerful influence on citizen’s lives thus subjecting them to detrimental effects of scientifically designed conceptual frameworks and discursive practices of conducted research (Hass, 2001). So far, researched ‘transitional life’ in post-communist/postwar Croatia is rooted in ‘knowledge power structures’ meticu lously developed inside transitional justice academic and policy works on former Yugoslav societies enabling continuous production of ‘scientifically based injustices’ (De Genova et al, 2016). Therefore, the main objective in this paper is to examine knowledge production about Croatian ‘transitional society’ and ‘trauma tized populations’ and how its discursive construction of the new ‘Other’ – ‘spoilers’ (Fisher, 2011) is scientifically rooted in ‘transitional justice’ policy application (Leebaw, 2005).Thereby, a selection of transitional justice scholarly works on Croatia and the Western Balkans along with documents produced by the intern ational organizations/institutions in the period 1997–2017 are studied. Foucauldian discourse analysis (Klos-Czerowinska, 2015) coupled with his (2003, 2007) and Agamben’s (1998, 2005) understanding of the postmodern European society are used to ‘deconstruct’ (Janks, 2005) ‘scientifically based injustices’ produced about post-war traumatized populations of ‘spoilers’ in Croatia.

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