GEOPOLITIČKO KODIRANJE BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE U OBRAZOVNOM SISTEMU
GEOPOLITICAL CODING OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Author(s): Sead Turčalo
Subject(s): State/Government and Education, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies, Pedagogy
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; education; national group of subjects; geopolitics; geopolitical discourse;
Summary/Abstract: Post-war state-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina was largely encouraged and framed through the actions of the international community. One of the segments of this process in which the international actors took the coordinating, but not a proactive role, was education. By reducing its activities to coordination, it ignored the obstructive potential which an ethnically segmented school system can have on the state-building process. This has created the ground for the formation of students as subjects that will perpetuate the geopolitical visions of Bosnia and Herzegovina which the ethno-political establishment exploits to the end of ethno-mobilization. In this article, through our own and existing analyses of textbooks from the so-called national group of subjects, we intend to show patterns of forming students as real geopolitical subjects. Through a system of education structured in this way, structural violence against the Other became the norm within which imaginative geographies and narratives of the country were developed according to the dominant view of the majority.

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