“Ethno-Nationalization” of the Post-Yugoslav Societies: Features, Actors, Consequences, and Possibilities of “ De-Ethno-Nationalization Cover Image

„Etnonacionalizacija” post-jugoslovenskih društаva: svojstva, akteri, posledice i mogućnosti "deetnonacionalizacije
“Ethno-Nationalization” of the Post-Yugoslav Societies: Features, Actors, Consequences, and Possibilities of “ De-Ethno-Nationalization

Author(s): Silvano Bolčić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: Post-Yugoslav societies; ethno-nationalized society; process of ethno-nationalization of society; nationalism; de-ethnonationalization of society

Summary/Abstract: discusses the characteristics of nationalism in the “ethno-nationalized” society and pinpoints key promoters of nationalism and “ethno-nationalization” in the PostYugoslav societies. Third part of the paper is devoted to the analysis of consequencesof the process of “ethno-nationalization” of society, with an emphasis on regressiveimplications of such transformation of a given society. Last part of the paper isdevoted to the possible processes of societal reconstitution aimed at the “de-ethnonationalization” of the Post-Yugoslav societies.Process of “ethno-nationalization” of the Post-Yugoslav societies isconsidered as a crucial process of transformation of the new Post-Yugoslav societiesconstituted after the destruction of SFR Yugoslavia. In these “ethno-nationalized”societies society in totality is treated as being “owned” by the dominant ethno-nation.State’s and general societal projects and actions have the primary role to secure,enhance and promote ethno-national interests of the dominant ethno-nation. Firstpart of the paper describes essential features of the “ethno-nationalized” society indomain of social stratification, in economy, political system, cultural formation,and in relation to basic social values. Since “ethno-nationalized” society is notonly society with nationalism as the dominant ideology, second part of the paper.

  • Issue Year: 61/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 323-346
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian