Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe

Tamara P. Trošt is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2012, with a dissertation examining the interplay between history and ethnic identity among Croatian and Serbian youth. Her article ‘Ruptures and continuities in ethno-national discourse: Reconstructing the nation through history textbooks in Serbia and Croatia’ won the 2017 Nations and Nationalism Dominique Jacquin-Berdal prize. She has published on issues of everyday identity, populism, history textbooks, collective memory, and sports and nationalism. Danilo Mandić is a College Fellow at Harvard University’s Sociology Department, where he teaches political sociology, comparative approaches to war and organized crime, and refugees and foreign policy. He received his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from Harvard University. For his dissertation, he conducted extensive fieldwork in Kosovo/Serbia and South Ossetia/Georgia. He is developing a book manuscript on the role of organized crime in separatist movements after the Cold War, and has led a research team to investigate the Syrian refugee crisis on the Balkan Route.

Introduction. Part I. New Ethnic Mosaics: Cleavages within Ethnic Groups. Chapter 1. Negotiating Identities in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: Self, Ethnicity and Nationhood in Adolescents Born of Wartime Rape. Chapter 2. Dual Citizenship and Youth Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Chapter 3. Complexity of Inner Belonging: Notions of Belonging and Alienation among Adolescents with a Migrant Background in Croatia. Chapter 4. Constructing and Destructing the Ethnic: Discourses of Ethnicity among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina. Part II. Political Participation and Youth Identities. Chapter 5. Youth Politicization and De-politicization in Contemporary Albania. Chapter 6. From Foreign Mercenaries to Civic Activists: A Comparison of Youth Identity in Post Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. Chapter 7. Forging Civic Bonds "from below": Montenegrin Activist Youth between Ethno-National Disidentification and Political Subjectivation. Part III. Transcending Ethnic Identities: Comparative Perspectives. Chapter 8. Taming Conflicted Identities: Searching for New Youth Values in the Western Balkans. Chapter 9. Beyond Ethnic Identity: History, Pride, and Nationhood across Socioeconomic Lines in Serbian and Croatian YouthChapter 10. Out with the Old: Youth Solidarity and Nationalism among Young Kosovars and Serbs. Conclusion.