Discursive construction of “others”: The Serbian community in southeast Kosovo in the post-war context

Abstract

This paper briefly discusses method and theory and results of multi-sited field research of the Serbian community in southeast Kosovo. The paper represents a reduced version of much larger study, to follow subsequently, on relation between ethnic and other forms of collective identity of the Serbian community in southeast Kosovo in the post-war context.

Keywords

• Serbs
• Kosovo
• field research
• the postwar context
• discourse
• identity
• identification
• ethnic identity
• protectorate