scholarly journals The significance and influence of religions and confessions on the formation of nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Pehar Antonio
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
External Factors ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Confessional Identity

The article deals with the religious and confessional identity of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of Ottoman and then the Austro-Hungarian authorities, and it is trying to define the elements of nationality in their identity. The reasons for initiating the rounding-up of three national identities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Muslim/Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian) and not a common one are also highlighted. It identifies the external factors as well as the circumstances of the internal dynamics of society that have influenced the formation of the nation on the dominant principle of religious/confessional affiliation of the population.

The Sun and the Throne.

Numen ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-152
Author(s):  
Russell Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Imperial Cult

AbstractIn this study, I seek to elucidate the process by which the Japanese royal descent myth evolved into the form with which the modern world is familiar. I analyze and compare the forms of the myth found in the Nihongi and the Kojiki, and explicate their evolution through historical and textual analysis. By examining the interplay of the internal dynamics of the myth itself and the external factors that worked to shape it, I reconstruct the mythographical process, and suggest key factors that may have molded the myth. In particular, I argue that it was the introduction of Buddhism at the Yamato court that stimulated the establishment of an imperial cult at Ise and the reconfiguration of key mythic traditions. According to my analysis, the myth itself originated during the reign of king Keitai (early 6th century). In the original myth, the ancestor of the ruling house was not the sun-goddess Amaterasu, but rather the heavenly ruler Takami-musubi. In the mid-sixth century, a sun-goddess named Ō-hirume was introduced in an effort to combat the rising influence of Buddhism. The artificial figure of Amaterasu was introduced only during the reign of Temmu, late in the seventh century.

scholarly journals Popular history in the classroom

Anafora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-391
Author(s):  
Lejla Mulalić
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Popular Medium ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This paper discusses the historical documentary as an increasingly popular and largely untheorised form of non-academic history. Placed between academic history and the popular medium of television and film, an authored historical documentary presented by a celebrity historian transcends various cultural binaries and demands to be considered on its own terms as a particular way of approaching history. Having in mind its subversive potential as well as its popular appeal, the paper is particularly concerned with the construction of national identities in the historical documentaries of Simon Schama (A History of Britain) and Michael Wood (The Great British Story), in order to elucidate the advantages of their use in the history classroom.Since every classroom exists within a particular socio-historical context, this discussion of British identities is positioned in the English Department’s history class in Sarajevo, within the context of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina as a reminder that we never teach in a historical vacuum. While comparing Schama’s and Wood’s approaches to history, a number of questions emerge concerning the role of the historian in the construction of particular historical meanings; the use of narrative to present historical information; and the relevance of the documentary’s visual language in conveying specific interpretations of history. The paper attempts to answer these questions and explain how critical engagement with a historical documentary can help students learn not only about the content of history, but also about the processes behind the meanings we consume, which, ultimately, reveal a great deal about us as consumers.

scholarly journals Corporate governance in post-socialist Poland

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Maria Dziembowska
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Control Structure ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
And Control ◽  
To Receive

In this paper, I focus specifically on how changes in the legal framework shape the ownership and control structure of new and recently privatized companies in the emerging market economy of post-socialist Poland. I discuss the market for capital, which also depends on the legal system, as investors’ decision to invest is bound up with the sort of protection they are likely to receive against those who appropriate their money for the operations of the firm. I argue that governmental actions aimed at stimulating investment and economic development in post-socialist Poland and the emergent model of corporate governance is conditioned both by internal dynamics - such as previous corporate arrangements and the origins of the commercial law - and by external factors - such as EU accession, directives and policies regarding investment obligations and shareholder rights.

Recognising politics in unrecognised states: 20 years of enquiry into the de facto states of the South Caucasus

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Laurence Broers
Keyword(s):  
External Factors ◽  
External Support ◽  
The South ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Central State ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
South Ossetia ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
Over Time

De facto states in the South Caucasus have presented a range of theoretical and empirical challenges for both scholars and policy-makers for some 20 years. This article charts the trajectories of different concepts, theories and paradigms deployed over this period to understand de facto states in this region, and in particular their internal dynamics. It is argued that while external factors are central to the sustainability of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorny Karabakh, scholarship on these entities has increasingly over time asserted the relevance of their internal politics. The article discusses how over the last decade this analysis has increasingly conflicted with the revival of the region’s central state authorities, whose conceptual reading and policy repertoires vis-à-vis de facto states remain focused on their external support structures. The article finishes by discussing some of the implications of this disjunction for policies enacted towards to de facto states of the region by both central state authorities and the international community.

Constrained Democracy: The Consolidation of Democracy in Yugoslav Successor States

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Bieber ◽  
Florian Bieber ◽  
Irena Ristić
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Common

The development of democracy in the successor states of Yugoslavia illustrates the whole range of differences among these states: from Slovenia which is considered most advanced and consolidated, over Croatia which is on its way to become a consolidated democratic state, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia which are seen as still very fragile zones for democracy to take roots in. While scholars refer to these latter cases as to failed or unconsolidated democracies, this article argues against the common theoretical framework and calls for the use of different theoretical and methodological tools to measure the (un)success of these states. For this purpose this article discusses the main (internal) features and weaknesses of these democracies and points at a number of external factors and internal objective circumstances, which (unintentionally) hinder the process of democratization.

scholarly journals Geopolitical lives of children – commentary to Habashi

2019 ◽  
Vol 197 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Suncana Laketa
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Home Country ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Children's Narratives ◽  
Palestinian Children

I write this piece as a commentary to Habashi’s article (this issue) on the national identity of Palestinian children. Habashi reminds us here that national identities are not static and fixed and that children need to be considered as active agents in constructing and reconstructing national and global politics. I take her long-standing commitment to Palestinian children’s narratives of their own geopolitical worlds to consider the geopolitical lives of children in my own home country – Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ethnic, Religious, and National Identities among Young Bosniaks and Serbs in Minority and Majority Contexts in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Vladimir Turjačanin ◽  
Srđan Dušanić ◽  
Siniša Lakić ◽  
Sabina Čehajić-Clancy ◽  
Maja Pulić de Sanctis
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
National Identities

No future? Narrating the past in Bosnian history museums

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 789-803
Author(s):  
Joachim von Puttkamer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Banja Luka

Recent unrest and the 2014 elections have corroborated the impression of Bosnia as a failing state, one that is constantly being undermined by the three-way impasse between constituent ethnic groups of Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs. Major history museums in Bosnia, however, provide a more complex picture. This paper analyzes museums and exhibitions on twentieth-century history in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Jajce, with regard to their narrative strategies, their aesthetic appearance, and the commemorative practices in their respective locations. From this perspective, the use of history in building group identity in Bosnia is far from coherent. Although museums are one means to assert firmly entrenched national identities both old and new, they compete at the same time with nostalgic commemorations of socialist Yugoslavia and with equally nostalgic references to the Austrian occupation. Various civic groups struggle to assert their visions of belonging, mostly with rather modest financial means. Based on these findings, this paper will explore not only the underlying assumptions of what history and, in particular, museums are all about, but also how visions of the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina are inscribed in these uses of history – if indeed they are.

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