Stjepan Meštrovic
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Dr. Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (1955- ) is an American sociologist, professor, author of over fifteen books and a distinguished expert in matters of war crimes. He testified on the trials regarding Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
.
His latest book is Rules of Engagement? A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime--Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. It follows The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor and both books are accounts of the realities of the cases in which he served as an expert witness.
Meštrović is presently a sociology professor at Texas A&M University
and holds three degrees from Harvard University
and a Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University
. He is a grandson of the renowned Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović
.
One of his best known books, Postemotional Society, attempts to extend David Riesman's
concept of other-directedness in The Lonely Crowd and apply it to contemporary social life, particularly the idea of fake sincerity. Genocide after Emotion (1996) is an anthology edited by him. It attempts to resolve the contrasts of social upheaval and warfare, confusions of histories and manipulations of reality by introducing a theoretical construct he calls ‘postemotionalism’, which he considers to be a more appropriate term than postmodernism
to ‘capture the fission, Balkanization, ethnic violence and other highly emotional phenomena of the late 1990s’. The anthology contains a wide variety of interpretations and responses to the break-up of Yugoslavia, including a historical outline and analysis of the conflict through the Austro—Hungarian and Ottoman empires, responses and representations by the American media, and psychoanalytical interpretations of Serb—Croat ‘otherness’.
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Beginning in 2004, human rights violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture, rape, sodomy, and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to public attention...
and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...
.
His latest book is Rules of Engagement? A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime--Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. It follows The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor and both books are accounts of the realities of the cases in which he served as an expert witness.
Meštrović is presently a sociology professor at Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
and holds three degrees from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and a Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
. He is a grandson of the renowned Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović
Ivan Meštrovic
Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor and architect born in Vrpolje, Croatia...
.
One of his best known books, Postemotional Society, attempts to extend David Riesman's
David Riesman
David Riesman , was a sociologist, attorney, and educator....
concept of other-directedness in The Lonely Crowd and apply it to contemporary social life, particularly the idea of fake sincerity. Genocide after Emotion (1996) is an anthology edited by him. It attempts to resolve the contrasts of social upheaval and warfare, confusions of histories and manipulations of reality by introducing a theoretical construct he calls ‘postemotionalism’, which he considers to be a more appropriate term than postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
to ‘capture the fission, Balkanization, ethnic violence and other highly emotional phenomena of the late 1990s’. The anthology contains a wide variety of interpretations and responses to the break-up of Yugoslavia, including a historical outline and analysis of the conflict through the Austro—Hungarian and Ottoman empires, responses and representations by the American media, and psychoanalytical interpretations of Serb—Croat ‘otherness’.
Books
- Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, 1988.
- The Coming Fin de Siecle: An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and Postmodernity, 1991.
- Durkheim and Postmodern Culture, 1992.
- The Road From Paradise: The Possibility of Democracy in Eastern Europe, 1993.
- Habits of the Balkan Heart: Social Character and the Fall of Communism, 1993.
- The Barbarian Temperament: Towards a Postmodern Critical Theory, 1993
- The Balkanization of the West: The Confluence of Postmodernism With Postcommunism, 1994
- Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist,1998
- Genocide After Emotion: The Postemotional Balkan War, 1996
- Postemotional Society, 1997
- This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (co-edited with Thomas Cushman), 1996
- The Conceit of Innocence: How the Conscience of the West was Lost in the War against Bosnia, 1997
- Thorstein Veblen on Theory, Culture and Society, 2004.
- The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor, 2007
- Heart of Stone: My Grandfather, Ivan Mestrovic (in Croatian), 2007
- Rules of Engagement? A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime--Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq 2008.
See also
- http://www.slavenletica.com/index.php?lang=hr&option=news&page=news_pregled&itemid=1&newsid=86
- Yugoslav WarsYugoslav warsThe Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
- http://www.armedia.net.au/archive/1997a/rev03.html
- Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuseAbu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuseBeginning in 2004, human rights violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture, rape, sodomy, and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to public attention...
- http://www.dnevnikulturni.info/vijesti/knjizevnost/227/mestrovic_unuk_o_poremecenom_mestrovicu_djedu/
- Texas A&M UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTexas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
- Ivan MeštrovićIvan MeštrovicIvan Meštrović was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor and architect born in Vrpolje, Croatia...