2016
Multicultural Vanguard? Sarajevo’s interethnic young adults between ethnic categorisation and international spaces
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Publication
Europe - Asia Studies , Volume 68 - Issue 3 p. 460- 486
This article analyses how Sarajevo’s young adults from a middle class, interethnic background deal with the rigid ethnic categorisation enforced by state institutions and society. Their strategies (exit, reframing, and partial separation) appear to be unsatisfactory to the actors themselves, and wield generally no influence on the institutions they wish to change. Three factors have been setting into motion this dynamic: first, the difficulty of escaping ethnic group thinking when attempting to reframe ethnic categories; second, the rationality of avoiding open defiance to ethnic categorisation; and third, the young adults’ tendency to centre their life on interethnic and international spaces. As a ‘project elite’, Sarajevo’s young adults are rather separated from society, both discursively and socio-economically
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doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2015.1136595, hdl.handle.net/1765/95708 | |
Europe - Asia Studies | |
Organisation | International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) |
Visser, O., & Bakker, M. (2016). Multicultural Vanguard? Sarajevo’s interethnic young adults between ethnic categorisation and international spaces. Europe - Asia Studies, 68(3), 460–486. doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1136595 |