Drugi u poslekonfliktnom stanju
Others in Post-Conflict Contexts

Summary/Abstract: Researches conducted so far within the project Spinning out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' – 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states focused on exploring the relations towards the Other in a state of conflict. Moreover: most of the author’s and coauthors’ contributions were oriented towards discourse analysis in the context of violence. Except for the peaceful dismemberment of Montenegro and Serbia, proclamation of independance of other Yugoslav states did not go without violence, to a greater or lesser extent. The Other in these situations was predominantly the ethnic Other, and usualy treated as enemy. For that reason, the greater part of our past work was oriented towards analysing media reports of the most stiking war events. Also, some of the contributions intentionally targeted media reportings of tense situations and those bearing the unpredictable outcomes, such as referenda or meetings discusing war and peace matters; or, we focused our inquiries on radical standpoints expressed by certain media or political parties – all that in order to explore the essencial forms of constructing and manifesting the Otherness on a rhetoric level. From a broader perspective, the analysed period, marked by the wars of ex – Yugoslavia in the last decade of 20th century, could be comprehended as the preiod of a state of emergency, where the old order had been brutaly and radicaly destroyed and the new one was installed. In such a process, as it was shown, the relation towads the Other was also usualy extreme and ethnicly motivated...

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