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What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young
people living in Southeastern Europe? Which identities matter to
them? How are their values changing, and how can they be changed?
Who is changing them? Europe's periphery is the testing ground for
the success of European values and identities. The future stability
and political coherence of the Union will be determined in large
measure by identity issues in this region. This book examines the
ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been
surpassed as the overriding focus in the lives of the region's
youth. Employing bottom-up, ethnographic, and interview-based
approaches, it explores when and where ethnic and national
identification processes become salient. Using intra-national and
international comparisons of youth populations of Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia,
and Vojvodina, contributors uncover the mechanisms by which ethnic
identities are evoked, reproduced and challenged. In addition to
exploring political, regional cultural generational and class
identities, the contributors examine wider questions of European
unity. This volume offers a corrective to previous thinking about
youth ethnic identities and will prove useful to scholars in
political science and sociology studying issues of ethnic and
national identities and nationalism, as well as youth cultures and
identities.
What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young
people living in Southeastern Europe? Which identities matter to
them? How are their values changing, and how can they be changed?
Who is changing them? Europe's periphery is the testing ground for
the success of European values and identities. The future stability
and political coherence of the Union will be determined in large
measure by identity issues in this region. This book examines the
ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been
surpassed as the overriding focus in the lives of the region's
youth. Employing bottom-up, ethnographic, and interview-based
approaches, it explores when and where ethnic and national
identification processes become salient. Using intra-national and
international comparisons of youth populations of Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia,
and Vojvodina, contributors uncover the mechanisms by which ethnic
identities are evoked, reproduced and challenged. In addition to
exploring political, regional cultural generational and class
identities, the contributors examine wider questions of European
unity. This volume offers a corrective to previous thinking about
youth ethnic identities and will prove useful to scholars in
political science and sociology studying issues of ethnic and
national identities and nationalism, as well as youth cultures and
identities.
This volume explores how the process of European integration has
influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western
Balkans. In the region, there is still no shared understanding of
the causes (and consequences) of the Yugoslav wars. The conflicts
of the 1990s but also of WWII and its aftermath have created
"ethnically confined" memory cultures. As such, divergent
interpretations of history continue to trigger confrontations
between neighboring countries and hinder the creation of a joint EU
perspective. In this volume, the authors examine how these "memory
wars" impact the European dimension - by becoming a tool to either
support or oppose Europeanisation. The contributors focus on how
and why memory is renegotiated, exhibited, adjusted, or ignored in
the Europeanisation process.
This volume explores how the process of European integration has
influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western
Balkans. In the region, there is still no shared understanding of
the causes (and consequences) of the Yugoslav wars. The conflicts
of the 1990s but also of WWII and its aftermath have created
"ethnically confined" memory cultures. As such, divergent
interpretations of history continue to trigger confrontations
between neighboring countries and hinder the creation of a joint EU
perspective. In this volume, the authors examine how these "memory
wars" impact the European dimension - by becoming a tool to either
support or oppose Europeanisation. The contributors focus on how
and why memory is renegotiated, exhibited, adjusted, or ignored in
the Europeanisation process.
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