{"product_id":"citizens-of-an-empty-nation-youth-and-state-making-in-postwar-bosnia-herzegovina-hardback-9780812247008","title":"Citizens of an Empty Nation; Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Hardback) 9780812247008","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCitizens of an Empty Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eYouth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAzra Hromadžić (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812247008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 7 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.435 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An intimate and compellingly written ethnography of the lives of youth in postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, illuminating the depth and complexity of state politics as manifested and refracted in youths' lives.\" (Kimberley Coles, author of \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Designs: International Intervention and Electoral Practice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina\u003c\/i\u003e) \"International politicians sound great when they talk about 'multiculturalism' and 'integration,' but Azra Hromadžić takes them to school-specifically, to the Mostar Gymnasium, where the tensions, temptations, and limitations of an ethnically divided state are felt, around the tables, in the hallways, in the shared bathroom. This book combines critical insight and humane sensitivity in equal measures. It is a model for how postconflict ethnography should be performed.\" (Eric Gordy, author of \u003ci\u003eGuilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia\u003c\/i\u003e) \"In this rich, reflexive, and carefully crafted ethnography of youth in a Bosnian high school existing in the space between between reunification and segregation, Azra Hromadžić captures the lived realities of her subjects' everyday lives in the context of ethnicized nationalisms and international peace-building. The book is a passionate plea to look beyond the certainties of fixed categories and explore the possibilities of restoring, however fleetingly, a discourse and practice of hope for a better future.\" (Paul Stubbs, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of devastating conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the polarizing effects of everyday ethnic divisions, combined with hardened allegiances to ethnic nationalism and the rigid arrangements imposed in international peace-building agreements, have produced what Azra Hromadžić calls an \"empty nation.\" Hromadžić explores the void created by unresolved tensions between mandated reunification initiatives and the segregation institutionalized by power-sharing democracy, and how these conditions are experienced by youths who have come of age in postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina.\u003cbr\u003e Building on long-term ethnographic research at the first integrated school of Bosnia-Herzegovina, \u003ci\u003eCitizens of an Empty Nation\u003c\/i\u003e offers a ground-level view of how the processes of reunification play out at the Mostar Gymnasium. Hromadžić details the local effects of the tensions and contradictions inherent in the processes of postwar state-making, shedding light on the larger projects of humanitarian intervention, social cohesion, cross-ethnic negotiations, and citizenship. In this careful ethnography, the Mostar Gymnasium becomes a powerful symbol for the state's simultaneous segregation and integration as the school's shared halls, bathrooms, and computer labs foster dynamic spaces for a rich cross-ethnic citizenship-or else remain empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. INTEGRATEING THE SCHOOL\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Right to Difference\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Cartography of Peace-Building\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Bathroom Mixing\u003cbr\u003e PART II. DISINTEGRATING THE NATION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Poetics of Nationhood\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Invisible Citizens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Anti-Citizens\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Empty Nation, Empty Bellies\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739658580248,"sku":"9780812247008","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/citizens-of-an-empty-nation-youth-and-state-making-in-postwar-bosnia-herzegovina-hardback-9780812247008","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}