Naslov
Representation of Structural Violence in Croatian and Serbian History Textbooks: Case Study of WWII

Autori
Đurđević, Goran ; Parunov, Pavao

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
Re-thinking Humanities and Social Sciences: On Violence / - Zadar, 2013, 22-22

Skup
Re-thinking Humanities and Social Sciences: On Violence

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.09.2013. - 07.09.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
structural violence, cultural violence, curriculum representation, nationalism and ethnocentrism

Sažetak
The content of history textbooks of many nations has proved to be a site of political and cultural conflict. This paper presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative study conducted on the range of history textbooks both in Croatia and in Serbia. Textbooks used in this study are official textbooks used in the history curriculum of elementary and high schools while the volumes used in the analysis date from the beginning of the 1990s until today. History textbooks can be regarded as an official historical record of a nation and as such serve the purpose of creating and maintaining social and cultural national memory by reproducing institutionalized knowledge. Relying on concepts of structural and cultural violence, this paper looks at the events of WWII that are relevant to the national spaces of Croatia and Serbia (former Yugoslavia) in order to underline different discourses by looking into the constructions of nationalism and ethnocentrism in the textbook content. Considering the history of conflict between Croatia and Serbia, the paper attempts to provide greater insight on how each country’s history curriculum can be seen as a device of structural violence based upon constructions of ideological discourse that are purposefully both political and social.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti

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