Genocide, joint criminal enterprise, and reconciliation: Interactional analysis of a post-war society in the context of legitimizing transitional capitalism
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Cogent Social Sciences, E-ISSN 2331-1886, Vol. 10, nr 1, artikel-id 2287317Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Hållbar utveckling
SDG 1: Avskaffa fattigdom i alla dess former överallt, SDG 4: Säkerställa en inkluderande och likvärdig utbildning av god kvalitet och främja livslångt lärande för alla, SDG 16: Främja fredliga och inkluderande samhällen för hållbar utveckling, tillhandahålla tillgång till rättvisa för alla samt bygga upp effektiva och inkluderande institutioner med ansvarsutkrävande på alla nivåer
Abstract [en]
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995) is the historic background of this paper, as produced in the documents presented during international and national trials concerning war crimes committed during this period. A literature review forms the analytical basis and contains various empirical and theoretical studies from the fields of philosophy, war sociology, and social epistemology. The aim of this paper is to analyse the normative orientations and social values that affect (1) the feelings of moral and social understanding (or non-understanding) after the genocide and the joint criminal enterprise in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the context of legitimizing transitional capitalism, (2) the actions of individuals, organizations, and states as well as the entire social community in the post-war society, and (3) the process of reconciliation and trust in post-war society. The analysis makes evident the usual tendency in a post-war society to deify one’s own ethnic (religious) group, while the consequence of such false self-infatuation with “our” collective is that the “other” that is not ours becomes undesirable. It must be, as evidence of patriotism and unconditional emotional loyalty to “our holy issue”, wiped out for good. Ethnic cleansings, joint criminal enterprises, and genocides thus become a normal means of ethnopolitical—i.e. biopolitical—“management of differences”. At the same time, ethnocorruption and ethnobanditry can erroneously be qualified as the least transparent and, for social and criminological research, the most difficult phenomena (or manifestations) of social pathology. The difficulty lies in the fact that ethnocorruption and ethnobanditry are in many respects related and intertwined with the simultaneous institutional and organizational processes of regulating (or not regulating) the economic and political globalization and transfer of ownership during the transition from socialist self-management to a new type of economy.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. Vol. 10, nr 1, artikel-id 2287317
Nyckelord [en]
co-existence; peaceful potential; power; global knowledge society; neoliberalism; ethnopolitics
Nationell ämneskategori
Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi) Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER)
Forskningsämne
Samhällsvetenskap, Statsvetenskap; Samhällsvetenskap, Sociologi; Socialt arbete, Socialpsykologi; Samhällsvetenskap, Freds- och utvecklingsstudier; Polisvetenskap, Kriminologi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-125891DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2287317ISI: 001119699100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85178951629OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-125891DiVA, id: diva2:1817519
Konferens
Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality, the 4th ISA Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association and Brazilian Society of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (20210223-20210227). Sociologiskt tänkande för framtiden (”Sociological thinking for the future”), Stockholm University and Swedish Sociological Association, Stockholm, Sweden (20200318-20200320).
Projekt
War anomie2023-12-062023-12-062024-01-09Bibliografiskt granskad