The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition

Questions and Controversies over NATO Membership

Branko Banovi?

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137552280
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Montenegro has been a much neglected part of former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition aims to scrutinize the identity debates in Montenegrin public opinion over the question of membership to NATO and to explore how narratives created for that purpose have been linked with Montenegrin identity, history, tradition, and the concept of Montenegrin masculinity. The intertwining of the question of identity with that of NATO membership, and the inseparability of these issues from the context of quotidian politics produces an array of controversies among Montenegrin citizens. The book interprets the public and private debates about Montenegro joining NATO through the prism of anthropological studies of identity; in particular those focused on a general theory of culture and the anthropology of multiculturalism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Theory and Methodology
• 2 Narratives: The Path to Reality
• 3 The Hero between Poetry, History, and the Past: The “Making of” the Model of the Traditional Man
• 4 Traditional Gender Roles and Contemporary Multicultural Politics of Identity: Men between Reality and Multiculturalism
• 5 The Social, Historical, and Political Context of the Relations between NATO and Montenegro
• 6 The Reproduction of Contemporary Montenegrin Identity in the Context of NATO and EU Membership: Is NATO Solidifying or Fracturing the Montenegrin Identity?
• 7 Controversies Surrounding Membership in NATO in Private Discourses: The Citizens’ Viewpoint
• 8 The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition in the Arguments for and against NATO: Private Discourses and Formal Political Forums
• 9 Concluding Remarks
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index