TERMINOLOGIJA O BOSNI KAO STRUČNI I POLITIČKI PROBLEM
TERMINOLOGY ABOUT BOSNIA AS A PROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEM

Author(s): Vera Kržišnik Bukić
Subject(s): Politics, Political Theory, Lexis
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Bosnia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Terminology; People; Nation; Social sciences;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author focuses on historical and contemporary issues in Bosnia and on the Bosnia’s questions related to the controversial terminology of the content of peoples and nations in historiography and other social sciences. For the operational reasons, the author uses in the text the name Bosnia as a synonym for the current independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for that area in the past. She believes that the opportunity was missed at a historical moment just before or after the end of the Second World War when Bosnia might have been able to self-identify not only by the ethnic criterion, but also through the civil principle of the future social order of the then formed central republic in the Yugoslav federation. It explains the deterimental effect of the use of controversial terms between peoples and nations on the social reality of Bosnia in the past and present. She estimates that a precise terminological application of these terms and their derivatives might be of considerable significance to the overcoming of the persistent social tensions that burden Bosnia due to the complicated domestic ethnic structure, and mostly due to the negative influence of the neighboring states of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia on social relations in Bosnia. It presents possible research modalities for the consideration of Bosnian reality in the field of peoples’ and national contents. Proposes a proactive systematic role of social sciences in the field of terminology on peoples’ and and civic issues of Bosnia.

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