Ethnonationality’s Evolution in Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia, 1st ed. 2020 Politics, Institutions and Intergenerational Dis-continuities

This book is centred upon the concept of ?ethnonationality,? investigating how its meanings and functions have changed across political regimes, time, and generations. Piacentini explores two similar yet different realities, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia (now North Macedonia) ? both former Yugoslav republics, multiethnic, and currently characterised by consociational arrangements and ethnic politics.

This temporal perspective encompasses both the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, empirically exploring two generations living together in the same family, each socialised by different macro-environments and socio-political and economic conditions. The book explores which ideas, rules, and patterns of behaviour related to ethnonationality have been transmitted between the generations. 

Ethnonationality?s Evolution in Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, and conflict studies.

1. Introduction: Ethnonationality, Citizenship, and Feelings of Belonging.- 2. Ethnic Groups and Nations in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).- 3. After Yugoslavia: The New World.- 4. Between Group Status and Individual Benefits: The Case of Skopje.- 5. Between Cosmopolitanism and Survival: The Case of Sarajevo.- 6. The Story of Ethnonationality.- 7. Conclusion: What Can We Learn?.

Arianna Piacentini obtained her PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milano, and is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism at EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy.

Engages with “ethnonationality” in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia through the prism of inter-generational continuities and discontinuities

Explores how shifts in ethnonational discourses are represented in “the everyday life” of citizens and between different generations within families

Questions to what extent past and present ‘macro-environments’ and connected family-personal experiences have penetrated and shaped the family micro-environment