Old Memories, New Stories: Political Extremism and Identity in Post-War Bosnian Youth

Abstract

Old Memories, New Stories, Political Extremism and Identity in Post-War Bosnian Youth, examines how young adults living in the municipality of Gradiška engage with the process of nation-state building carried out by the institutions of Republika Srpska after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina - which lasted from 1992 to 1995. On the one hand, this dissertation studies the relationship between youth and institutional practices of remembering as critical for the study of individual and collective identities, as well as for the study of the dynamics of nation-state building and the promotion of nationalist agendas in Bosnia after the end of the war. On the other hand, this ethnography investigates youth as the central category of political intervention within the process of democratization and socio-economic intervention carried out by the international community in BiH after the end of the conflict.