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Memory claims and memory constraints. (Re)negotiating statehood and identities in Serbia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sladjana Lazic
Sladjana Lazic*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Emails: lazic@svt.ntnu.no; sladja.lazic@gmail.com
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Abstract

Rather than focusing on often-explored mnemonic practices (memorials, national celebrations, commemorations etc.) the article addresses the role that remembering, as a part of a wider political culture, plays in situations where images of the past are not visible per se, but are implied or even openly invoked to explain and (de)legitimize choices political actors make. By analyzing the interactions of memories and new institutional arrangements related to minority rights in the case of the Bosniak minority in Serbia, the article shows how recollections in political claims and policy-making were used as a medium for negotiations and the contestation of both political interests and competing “group-making projects”.

Keywords

SerbiaBosniaksrememberingidentities
Type
Special Section: Memeory and Identity in the Yugoslav Successor States
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 6 , November 2013 , pp. 936 - 952
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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