Non-Aligned Citizens”: Ethnic Power-Sharing and Non-Ethnic Identities in Bosnia Herzegovina. The Case of Sarajevo.
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Non-Aligned Citizens”: Ethnic Power-Sharing and Non-Ethnic Identities in Bosnia Herzegovina. The Case of Sarajevo / A. Piacentini. - In: NATIONALITIES PAPERS. - ISSN 0090-5992. - 48:4(2020), pp. 707-720. [10.1017/nps.2019.61]
Abstract:
Bosnia Herzegovina is a consociational democracy grounded on three ethnic constituencies. The postwar
implementation of power-sharing mechanisms ended to favor ethnocracy and ethnopolitics, eventually
compromising an inclusive democracy untied from ethnonational issues. This contribution explores the
positive potential held by political parties and ordinary citizens “nonaligned” with the ethnopolitical
scaffolding—therefore and consequently not explicitly included in the power-sharing system—because
they hold and promote “alternative,” civic, and nonethnic forms of identification. Drawing upon interviews
performed in Sarajevo, this article argues that citizens’ political disappointment and dissatisfaction are
among the reasons contributing to the existence of a small, yet potentially critical, mass of citizens able to
help adjusting an ethnically exclusive model of democracy.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Bosnia Herzegovina; nonaligned; ethnopolitics; civic identities; citizens;
Elenco autori:
A. Piacentini
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