Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten

Anamaria Dutceac Segesten has written a fascinating comparison of Romanian and Serbian history textbooks that raises important questions for policy makers, funding organizations, educationalists and historians, not only with respect to the Balkans but in relation to Europe more generally. A real contribution to a fast-growing field. Wendy Bracewell, University College London). A provocative and thoughtful book, based on an extensive empirical data collection, significantly adding to the theoretical connections between collective identity, political myths, education, and conflict

Ultimately, Myth, Identity, and Conflict, by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, questions the alleged power of history textbooks to make a difference in ethnically divided societies prone to conflicts", Provided by publisher. Segesten's findings confirm the presence of mythologized versions of the past in the history textbooks of both countries over the entire fifteen-year period studied (1992-2007), despite claims for professionalization of textbook-making. Ultimately, "Myth, Identity, and Conflict," by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, questions the alleged power of history textbooks to make a difference in ethnically divided societies prone to conflicts", Provided by publisher.

Thus, the way history is being taught is critical for the prevention of future conflicts and the creation of a stable peace.

ru - Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks, by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, is an examination of how history and politics became entangled in Romania and Serbia. In it, Segesten asks questions like: Is myth present in the history textbooks of Romania and Serbia?

Ultimately, Myth, Identity, and Conflict, by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, questions the alleged power of history textbooks to make a difference in ethnically divided societies prone to conflicts. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten is a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Modern European Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Dutceac Segesten, Anamaria Georgiana. Tismaneanu, Vladimir. If myths are to be found in history schoolbooks, are there differences in the ways these myths define the in-group and the relationship with the Other between a country that experienced interethnic conflict and a country that did not? The working hypothesis based upon the existing literature is simple: in multiethnic societies, history textbooks reflect the elite's, especially state elite's, interpretation of the past and outline the acceptable/ desirable representations of the dominant ethnic group and of the diverse Others with whom this group interacts.

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Her book Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian History Textbooks was published in 2011. Shin Hyung-ki is Professor of Korean Literature, Department of Korean Linguistics and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He recently published the monograph The Record of Schizophrenia: Reading Modernist Novel on the Periphery (2010).