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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.56.2.02

IDEOLOGY, CLASS, AND THE QUESTION OF POLITICAL SUBJECTIVIZATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Asim Mujkić ; Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo


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Abstract

Author investigates the role of ideology, myth and class in understanding the complex contemporary processes of political subjectivization in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Starting from the revolutionary context from the beginning of the 1990s, which the author understands as a parallel process of national and capitalist re-appropriation, the author poses the question: which are the conditions, discursive and institutional, for specific ethnic differences to become politically relevant, to become the source of political power and mobilization. The answer is explored on the basis of the anti-representationalist hypothesis according to which, on the one hand, these are the discursive and institutional conditions of “nation-state” understood as a state of homogenous ethnonational host and negligible ethnonational minority, and, on the other hand, the discursive and institutional conditions of capitalist order from which nationalist order is historically developed presupposing its class structure. The subject of the production of national-capitalist order is the ruling class; in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the class of ethnopolitical entrepreneurs which is in possession of the means of production of social life in general: both in the material and in the symbolical sense.

Keywords

Ideology; Myth; Class; Political Subjectivization; Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hrčak ID:

226344

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/226344

Publication date:

14.10.2019.

Article data in other languages: bosnian

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