Il kaleidoscopio imperfetto. Riflessioni su nuove concezioni identitarie in una città della Republika Srpska (Bosnia ed Erzegovina)

In this research, the author would explore how the young citizens of Prijedor feel about their own identity in the light of the processes of globalization, migration flows, economic and political changes that occurred in this two decades. Will ethnic anchored identity developed in ’90 incompatible with a global, cosmopolitan identity or this sort of miscellaneous between local and global contribute to create a new, creative form of membership? The project tends to bring out the citizens’ subjectivity and, through the ethnographical method, trying to understand if there are a young critical mass that doesn’t refuse a tradition but at the same time believes in a peaceful and proactive co-existence. According with the theorist of globalization and the academic of nationalism the author’s thesis wants to investigate not only the outline of civil society but also the ruling class, to highlight the differences of values that accompanied each other. The main question of this work is simple and critical at the same time: are the young fixed to old ethno-nationalist based archetype? Or they can really change their own society?