Dissertation, PhD awarded 17 November 2020

Publications and Reviews

McConnell, T. (2021) Erasing Yugoslavia, Ignoring Europe: The Perils of the Europeanisation Process in Contemporary Croatian Memory Politics. In: Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans, edited by Ana Milošević and Tamara Trošt. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-030-54700-4.

McConnell, T. (2020) Review of Framing the Nation and Collective Identities: Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth-Century Traumas in Croatia, edited by Vjeran Pavlaković and Davor Pauković. London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 246. £120.00 (hbk). Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 26 (3). p. 336-338. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2020.1791024.

McConnell, T. (2019) Memory abuse, violence and the dissolution of Yugoslavia: A theoretical framework for understanding memory in conflict. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 32 (3). p. 331-343. DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2018.1508334. (Published online 2018).

McConnell, T. (2018) Nationalism, Violence and the State in the Balkans: A Comparative Review. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 24 (3). p. 348-358. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2018.1489579. 

McConnell, T. (2017) Review of Jelena Subotić, Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 201. $22.95 (pbk). Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 23 (4). p. 480-482. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2017.1380466.

McConnell, T. (2017) Review of Catherine Baker, The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 192pp. £35.00 (hbk). Nations and Nationalism. 23 (4). p. 1010-1012. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12343.

Working Papers

“KRVatska”, “Branitelji”, “Žrtve”: (Re-)framing Croatia’s politics of memory and identity, “War and Identity in the Balkans and Middle East” workshop, Europe and the World Centre, University of Liverpool, April 2018.

Online Articles

Where are the braniteljice? Memory Studies Association Regional Group: South-East Europe blog. 8 December 2020.

Monument destruction and the second death of Yugoslavia Nationalism Studies at the University of Edinburgh blog. 15 October 2018.

“No Room for the Truth? Understanding the Structure of Transitional Justice in the former Yugoslavia” BalkanDiskurs. 29 April 2015.