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Author(s): Pål Kolstø
ISBN(s): 9781472419163, 1472419162
Edition: 1
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Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1472419162 
ISBN 13: 9781472419163
Author: Pal Kolsto

After the conflagration of Tito’s Yugoslavia a medley of new and not-so-new states rose from the ashes. Some of the Yugoslav successor states have joined, or are about to enter, the European Union, while others are still struggling to define their national borders, symbols, and relationships with neighbouring states. Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe expands upon the existing body of nationalism studies and explores how successful these nation-building strategies have been in the last two decades. Relying on new quantitative research results, the contributors offer interdisciplinary analyses of symbolic nation-building in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to show that whereas the citizens of some states have reached a consensus about the nation-building project other states remain fragmented and uncertain of when the process will end. A must-read not only for scholars of the region but policy makers and others interested in understanding the complex interplay of history, symbolic politics, and post-conflict transition.

Strategies of Symbolic Nation building in South Eastern Europe 1st Table of contents:

1 introduction
three waves of nation-building
nation-building on the ashes of multinational communist states
symbolic nation-building
the openness of symbols as a source of unity and division
framework of analysis
religious culture
ethnic culture
historical imagination
geographical imagination
nation-building strategies: from qualitative to quantitative analysis

2 fulfilling the thousand-year-old dream: strategies of symbolic nation-building in croatia
loyalty scores and an overview of survey results
historical narratives
symbols and geographic imagination
conclusions

3 jaws of the nation and weak embraces of the state: the lines of division, indifference and loyalty in bosnia-herzegovina
introduction
background to the analysis
the importance of ethnicity – is there a bosnian nation?
religious affiliations and institutions as barriers to pan-bosnian nationhood?
language as a divider
ethno-national versus state symbols and the submerged realm of the popular
the (non-) common histories of bosnia-herzegovina: denials of the yugoslav past
a country to be proud of? indicators of civic identity
continuation of the conflict: who is to blame?
the framing of bosnia-herzegovina as a nation of nations in the elite discourse
conclusions: ethno-nation as destiny, and post-war justice?

4 serbia and the symbolic (re)construction of the nation
an unfinished nation in an unfinished state
constitutional nation-building and state iconography
myths and a ‘usable past’ as elements of identity consolidation
problems of spiritual and spatial self-perception
conclusions

5 when two hands rock the cradle: symbolic dimensions of the divide over statehood and identity in montenegro
abstracted and actualized national category
symbolic competition over historical imagination
‘serbs’ and ‘montenegrins’ in the murky waters of history
dismantling the two faces of homo duplex
symbolic competition over geographical imagination
symbolic reconstruction of physical space
linguistic appropriation of space and identity differentiation
conclusions

6 kosovo: topography of the construction of the nation
introduction
the place of kosovo: identity and identification
kosovo in ‘the west’: joining the european union
the state and the nation
symbols and rituals of the state
the state and religion
the politics of memory: heroes and commemoration
ethnic reconciliation and transitional justice
loyalty and opposition to nation-building in kosovo
ethnicity and nation-building in kosovo
conclusions

7 strategies for creating the macedonian state and nation and rival projects between 1991 and 2012
research sources and methodology
analysis
name/names and naming
boycotted referendum for independence and constitutional nationalism
the symbols of the state and the nation
the flag and the coat of arms of the state and the nation
clash between the state (national) flag and the flags of the communities
the coat of arms of the republic of macedonia
the anthem
language
religion
materialization of nationalism
conclusions

8 status report albania 100 years: symbolic nation-building completed?
100 years of nation-building in the albanian state
a retrospective glance
ethnic issues
ancestry and heroes
no greek issue?
ethnicity and minorities
‘ethnic albania’?
the question of religion
few christians
albanians are not atheists …
… but don’t practise religion
a complex muslim majority nation
the religio-political zig-zag
‘religious tolerance’
religious connections: the more, the merrier?
secularism
dividing lines – statistical and perceived
proud and confused
concluding remarks

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