Shaping Social Identities After Violent Conflict Youth in the Wester
This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. With research drawn from a large multidisciplinary project exploring a potential for reconciliation in post-conflict societies, the authors discuss the
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Edited by Felicia Pratto, Iris Žeželj, Edona Maloku, Vladimir Turjačanin, Marija Branković
Shaping Social Identities After Violent Conflict
Felicia Pratto • Iris Žeželj Edona Maloku Vladimir Turjačanin • Marija Branković Editors
Shaping Social Identities After Violent Conflict Youth in the Western Balkans
Editors Felicia Pratto Department of Psychological Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA Edona Maloku Social Sciences Unit American University in Kosovo Pristina, Kosovo
Iris Žeželj Faculty of Philosophy Belgrade University Belgrade, Serbia Vladimir Turjačanin University of Banja Luka Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marija Branković Faculty of Media and Communications Singidunum University Belgrade, Serbia
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Foreword
A number of Enlightenment philosophers and classic social scientists thought that as a result of social and economic progress, ethnicity would over time lose its allure, disappear, and become a phenomenon of the past. If these classic writers were right, the present book that focuses on social identities of young people in ex-Yugoslavia in the early twenty-first century would have studied other identities, and ethnicity would have been of no concern to young people. This book, however, shows that most, if not all, young people today in ex-Yugoslavia have to grapple with issues surrounding ethnic identit
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