{"id":18003,"date":"2019-12-12T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=18003"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:03:16","slug":"mila-dragojevic-amoral-communities-collective-crimes-in-time-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Mila Dragojevi\u0107, \u201cAmoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Amoral Communities<\/em>, Mila Dragojevi\u0107 examines how conditions conducive to atrocities against civilians are created during wartime in some communities. She identifies the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders as the main processes. In these places, political and ethnic identities become linked and targeted violence against civilians becomes both tolerated and justified by the respective authorities as a necessary sacrifice for a greater political goal.<\/p>\n

Dragojevi\u0107 augments the literature on genocide and civil wars by demonstrating how violence can be used as a political strategy, and how communities, as well as individuals, remember episodes of violence against civilians. The communities on which she focuses are Croatia in the 1990s and Uganda and Guatemala in the 1980s. In each case Dragojevi\u0107 considers how people who have lived peacefully as neighbors for many years are suddenly transformed into enemies, yet intracommunal violence is not ubiquitous throughout the conflict zone; rather, it is specific to particular regions or villages within those zones. Reporting on the varying wartime experiences of individuals, she adds depth, emotion, and objectivity to the historical and socioeconomic conditions that shaped each conflict.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, as Amoral Communities<\/em> describes, the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders limit individuals’ freedom to express their views, work to prevent the possible defection of members of an in-group, and facilitate identification of individuals who are purportedly a threat. Even before mass killings begin, Dragojevi\u0107 finds, these and similar changes will have transformed particular villages or regions into amoral communities, places where the definition of crime changes and violence is justified as a form of self-defense by perpetrators.<\/p>\n

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Cornell University Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publication date: 10\/15\/2019<\/p>\n

Pages: 224<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/9781501739828\/amoral-communities\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mila Dragojevi\u0107 is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of the South. She is author of The Politics of Social Ties.<\/p>\n

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Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Mila Dragojevi\u0107’s book significantly contributes to our understanding of local-level violence,\u00a0civil war and insurgencies, and the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.”<\/p>\n

V.P. Gagnon Jr., Ithaca College, author of the prize-winning book\u00a0The Myth of Ethnic War<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Amoral Communities<\/em> is methodologically innovative as it takes the respondents’ understanding of violence seriously\u2014not as a ‘test’ of preexisting deductive theory, but as an actual explanation. It is a wonderful contribution to the comparative study of ethnic violence.”<\/p>\n

Jelena Suboti\u0107, Georgia State University, author of Hijacked Justice<\/em><\/p>\n

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