PROLEGOMENA TO FORUM BOSNAE
PROLEGOMENA TO FORUM BOSNAE

Summary/Abstract: A key sub-theme of this issue is that of identity and intergroup relations within BiH. The scene is set by Ivan Lovrenović in his "Prolegomena to Forum Bosnae", which opened the journal´s very first issue. Looking at cultural identity within the Bosnian-Herzegovinan space, Lovrenović argues that it should be seen as composite and complex. This avoids the complementary perversions of subsuming it into ethno-religious allegiance (which condemns those who espouse it to a blinkered, bigoted provincialism) or seeing it as multi-culturalism (which merely puts a positive, liberal gloss on the apartheid of the nationalists). The first step to restoring a composite, non-noxious notion of identity, according to Lovrenović, is dialogue - not only between so-called ethnic groups, but also within them.

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