Socialist countries like Yugoslavia garnered legitimacy through appealing to social equality.
Yet social stratification was characteristic of Yugoslav society and increased over the course …

Abstract In Bosnia and Herzegovina ethnic collective identities have been manipulated and
politicized, becoming fixed labels inferred by kinship and ethno‐religious origins. The war …

In January 1986, Yugoslav women's magazine Bazar published a human interest story
about a single-parent family's inability to pay its electricity bill. 2 The article was part of an …

This book examines the theoretical devices of" Yugoslav" and" post-Yugoslav" literature. The
author analyzes selected literary examples from the region through the lens of a …

Almost three decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia and theYugoslav wars from 1991 to
1995, the concept of Yugoslavia still haunts present generations. The transition the former …

This dissertation analyzes the circumstances and the fate of Kosovo's unilateral declaration
of independence on the 17th of February 2008, which was backed by the USA and the …

This book series presents scientific and scholarly studies focusing on societies and political
orders in transition, for example in Central and Eastern Europe but also elsewhere in the …

This chapter aims to familiarize the reader with the topic of the book. It introduces the main
concepts used throughout the chapters, lays the theoretical foundations needed, and …

This dissertation is centred upon the concept of 'ethnonationality'and aims at investigating
how its meanings and functions have possibly changed across generations, political …

Election campaigns are usually discussed in terms of a strategy designed to win elections,
but, as this thesis argues, they also communicate the meaning of the collective identities …