The significance of Serbia’s recent war-ridden past for young people’s identity perceptions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14712995
AutoresJelena Spasenić (Stockholm University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume63
Fascículo2
Páginas317-336
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlasnik Etnografskog instituta (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0350-0861 • E-ISSN: 2334-8259
EditoraNational Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS)
DOI10.2298/gei1502317s
OpenAlexW2409393104
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas30

How do we ethnographically chart the ways in which a recent war-ridden past features in everyday identifications of young adults, who have little or no direct experience of that past? One way is to treat this question as a matter of how everyday knowledge is constituted and transferred between individuals, as well as how historical legacies, cultural and political models enter their life-worlds, what they think and know, and who they are. These inquiries stood at the core of the study I conducted among two high-school classes between 2007 and 2009 in Novi Sad. This article will shed light on my main conclusions and problematize the notion of collective confrontation with the past. My contention is that arguments for collective confrontation with the past, together with official policies informed by this discourse, need to take into account social psychological mechanisms of identity construction in order to avoid the assumption that knowledge and moral insight can be mapped onto people’s minds

Aesthetics · Art · Collective identity · Epistemology · Everyday life · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology