Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe: Beyond Ethnicity

ISBN-13: 9781032178981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Tamara Trost; Danilo Mandic

Opis

This book examines the ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been replaced as the overriding focus in the lives of the region’s young people.

Spis treści

Introduction Danilo Mandic and Tamara P. TroštPart I. New Ethnic Mosaics: Cleavages within Ethnic GroupsChapter 1. Negotiating Identities in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: Self, Ethnicity and Nationhood in Adolescents Born of Wartime Rape Tatjana TakševaChapter 2. Dual Citizenship and Youth Identity in Bosnia and HerzegovinaNicholas R. Micinski and Jasmin HasicChapter 3. Complexity of Inner Belonging: Notions of Belonging and Alienation among Adolescents with a Migrant Background in CroatiaLana PeternelChapter 4. Constructing and Destructing the Ethnic: Discourses of Ethnicity among Hungarian Youth in VojvodinaKrisztina RáczPart II. Political Participation and Youth IdentitiesChapter 5. Youth Politicization and De-politicization in Contemporary Albania Islam Jusufi and Jubjana Vila ZekaChapter 6. From Foreign Mercenaries to Civic Activists: A Comparison of Youth Identity in Post Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina and MacedoniaAna AlibegovaChapter 7. Forging Civic Bonds "from below": Montenegrin Activist Youth between Ethno-National Disidentification and Political SubjectivationBojan BacaPart III. Transcending Ethnic Identities: Comparative PerspectivesChapter 8. Taming Conflicted Identities: Searching for New Youth Values in the Western BalkansVladimir Turjacanin, Iris Žeželj, Edona Maloku, Marija BrankovicChapter 9. Beyond Ethnic Identity: History, Pride, and Nationhood across Socioeconomic Lines in Serbian and Croatian Youth Tamara P. TroštChapter 10. Out with the Old: Youth Solidarity and Nationalism among Young Kosovars and SerbsDanilo MandicConclusionDanilo Mandic

O autorze

Tamara P. Trošt is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2012, with a dissertation examining the interplay between history and ethnic identity among Croatian and Serbian youth. Her article ‘Ruptures and continuities in ethno-national discourse: Reconstructing the nation through history textbooks in Serbia and Croatia’ won the 2017 Nations and Nationalism Dominique Jacquin-Berdal prize. She has published on issues of everyday identity, populism, history textbooks, collective memory, and sports and nationalism.

Danilo Mandić is a College Fellow at Harvard University’s Sociology Department, where he teaches political sociology, comparative approaches to war and organized crime, and refugees and foreign policy. He received his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from Harvard University. For his dissertation, he conducted extensive fieldwork in Kosovo/Serbia and South Ossetia/Georgia. He is developing a book manuscript on the role of organized crime in separatist movements after the Cold War, and has led a research team to investigate the Syrian refugee crisis on the Balkan Route.