Reviews/ Books/ Azra Hromadžić (2015), Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Philadelphia: University of Penn- sylvania Press), 248 pp., $59.95, ISBN 9780812247008. (Recenze knihy v časopisu AJEC)
2018
Abstract
Review of a book written by Azra Hromadžić titled: Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Azra Hromadžić offers an intriguing insight into state-building processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and many political, economic and social issues that accompany the postconflict reconstruction of the country.
Hromadžić explores these complicated phenomena in the ethnographic perspective using the example of Mostar Gymnasium - an 'integrated' (administratively unified) secondary school in Mostar, Herzegovina. At the centre of her attention lie the postwar state-making and international interventions in education systems and on the 'ordinary people', especially the youth.