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Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship
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Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and (dis)integrated.
By analysing one hundred years of modern citizenship in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states, Igor Štiks shows that the concept and practice of citizenship is necessary to understand how political communities are made, un-made and re-made. He argues that modern citizenship is a tool that can be used for different and opposing goals, from integration and re-unification to fragmentation and ethnic engineering.
The study of citizenship in the 'laboratory' of the Balkands offers not only an original angle to narrate an alternative political history, but also an insight into the fine mechanics and repeating glitches of modern politics, applicable to multinational states in the European Union and beyond.
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and (dis)integrated.
By analysing one hundred years of modern citizenship in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states, Igor Štiks shows that the concept and practice of citizenship is necessary to understand how political communities are made, un-made and re-made. He argues that modern citizenship is a tool that can be used for different and opposing goals, from integration and re-unification to fragmentation and ethnic engineering.
The study of citizenship in the 'laboratory' of the Balkands offers not only an original angle to narrate an alternative political history, but also an insight into the fine mechanics and repeating glitches of modern politics, applicable to multinational states in the European Union and beyond.
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240 pages, Paperback
First published August 13, 2015
About the author
Igor Štiks
27 books64 followersIgor Štiks spent his childhood in Sarajevo, but lived in Zagreb, Croatia since the Bosnian War started in 1992. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Zagreb.
He was a postgraduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), where he received a master degree in Philosophy and he was working for Northwestern University (USA, Chicago) as a teaching assistant for Global History I. In March 2009 he defended his PhD thesis 'A Laboratory of Citizenship: Nations and Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States'.
He has published two novels: A Castle in Romagna in 2000 and Elijah's Chair in 2006. A Castle in Romagna received the award for best first novel in Croatia in 2000. To date it has been translated into German, Spanish, French, and English. The second book as well has been rewarded as the best Croatian book of 2006 and it has won the prestigious Ksaver Sandor Gjalski prize. The English translation was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2006 and the book has been translated into ten languages to date.
His fiction, literary criticism and essays have appeared widely in journals and reviews of the former Yugoslavia. His story 'At the Sarajevo Market' was included in Best European Fiction 2010, published by Dalkey Archive Press. He is the editor of anthologies of new Croatian prose fiction and international short fiction in English.
Igor Štiks currently lives in Edinburg, Scotland and works for University of Edinburgh, School of Law as Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
He was a postgraduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), where he received a master degree in Philosophy and he was working for Northwestern University (USA, Chicago) as a teaching assistant for Global History I. In March 2009 he defended his PhD thesis 'A Laboratory of Citizenship: Nations and Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States'.
He has published two novels: A Castle in Romagna in 2000 and Elijah's Chair in 2006. A Castle in Romagna received the award for best first novel in Croatia in 2000. To date it has been translated into German, Spanish, French, and English. The second book as well has been rewarded as the best Croatian book of 2006 and it has won the prestigious Ksaver Sandor Gjalski prize. The English translation was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2006 and the book has been translated into ten languages to date.
His fiction, literary criticism and essays have appeared widely in journals and reviews of the former Yugoslavia. His story 'At the Sarajevo Market' was included in Best European Fiction 2010, published by Dalkey Archive Press. He is the editor of anthologies of new Croatian prose fiction and international short fiction in English.
Igor Štiks currently lives in Edinburg, Scotland and works for University of Edinburgh, School of Law as Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
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October 1, 2024
Prijevod s engleskoga: knjiga je pisana za tržište koje malo zna o ovim prostorima. Vrlo pojednostavljen prikaz suvremene političke povijesti. Ima i pravih bisera: na str. 61 čitamo da je Vuk Karadžić bio jedan od vođa "ilirskog pokreta"!
U analizi rata devedesetih i raspada Jugoslavije, a osobito u prikazu zbivanja u BIH, autor je neobjektivan. Neke događaje prikazuje vrlo simplificirano. O ideološkoj pristranosti da ne govorimo. Tipičan produkt ideologije "postjugoslavenstva"!
U analizi rata devedesetih i raspada Jugoslavije, a osobito u prikazu zbivanja u BIH, autor je neobjektivan. Neke događaje prikazuje vrlo simplificirano. O ideološkoj pristranosti da ne govorimo. Tipičan produkt ideologije "postjugoslavenstva"!
March 12, 2016
Štiks uses citizenship as a lens to view the history of Yugoslavia. This sheds new light on the reasons for the eventual breakup of the state and provides an insight into the reasons for continuing problems (e.g. Slovenia's erased) in the successor states. The book is essential reading for anyone interest in this historical period or this geographical region.
March 19, 2021
This book is an interesting historical document about the formation and disolution of Yugoslavia. I found it sometimes interesting, but rather dry. Nevetheless, it is easy to understand, and follows the path of the Yugoslav citizenship which came in parallel with the national citizenship. It is a great reading
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