Vladimir Ćorović: Panserbianism, Bosnia and Bosniaks
Vladimir Ćorović: Panserbianism, Bosnia and Bosniaks

Summary/Abstract: The critical review of the conceptions within historiography, literary history, sociology and ideologies in Bosnia nad Herzegovina has shown that, during the rule of Austria-Hungary, Serbian intellectual circles had shaped the ideology and politics of negation of historical individuality of Bosnia and Bosniaks. An example, that was explicite and indirect in writings published by Vladimir Ćorović during that period. His ethnic pan-Serbianism would emerge as the idea and the policy of the denationalisation of Bosnia-Muslims and their assimilation into the Serbian ethnic group. His negation of ethnic Bosniak identity as well as his pro-Serbian assimilatory nationalism are the integral parts and the key-components of his rdical rejection of the term Bosniakhood. His ideas are part of the discourse of the ideologically retrograde, anti-civilisational, anti-cultural and scientifically unfounded ideas, terms and projects. Negative, dehumanised, descriptions of ethno-psychological attributes of Bosnian-Muslims are used to legitimately rationalise pan-Serbian imperialism and hegemony. Anachronism of Ćorović's social, political and national thought is the concept and mythology of the Serbian ethnic assimilatory force.

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