Citizenship Rhetorics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Enacting Citizenship and Nationality in a Divided Country
| Název práce v češtině: | Rétorika občanství v Bosně a Hercegovině: Ustanovení občanství a národnosti v rozdělené zemi |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Citizenship Rhetorics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Enacting Citizenship and Nationality in a Divided Country |
| Klíčová slova: | Bosna a Hercegovina|občanství|rétorické občanství|národnost |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Bosnia and Herzegovina|citizenship|rhetorical citizenship|nationality |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2017/2018 |
| Typ práce: | diplomová práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav politologie (21-UPOL) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | PhDr. Ondřej Slačálek, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 13.03.2018 |
| Datum zadání: | 14.03.2018 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | zatím neschvalováno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 10.05.2018 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 14.06.2018 09:00 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 10.05.2018 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 14.06.2018 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | Zora Hesová, M.A., Ph.D. |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| The thesis will analyse discursive aspects of citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B-H). Citizenship regimes define boundaries of a polity and distribution of rights across the demos but their actual functioning is influenced also by informal ideologies, narratives or social practices. Citizenship is thus understood beyond the formal legal terms as encompassing political, social, and symbolical dimension. Considering discursive elements as constitutive for a citizenship regime, recent scholarship has called for rhetorically oriented studies of citizenship as discursively enacted and crafted. Citizenship policies are effective tools of nation-building and ethnic engineering and in the context of B-H, as a post-Yugoslav, post-conflict and deeply divided and fragmented country, they are highly sensitive. The citizenship legislation of B-H is contained in the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian war (1992–1995). It has a complex structure that reinforces ethnic identification, inhibits purely civic loyalties to the state and therefore makes the symbolic dimension of B-H citizenship highly problematic.
The theoretical framework of the thesis draws on theory of citizenship and recent discursive approaches to citizenship studies. The next section positions the debate in the Bosnian context and discusses historical development, specificities and major problems of the citizenship regime of B-H. The thesis then seeks to analyse how the concept of citizenship of B-H has been enacted on the discursive level – how the question ‘who is a citizen’ has been formulated and propagated by relevant actors. In particular, it maps rhetorics related to two events that propped up continuing discussions on a reform of the current regime – the Sejdić and Finci vs. B-H ruling by the European Court for Human Rights in 2009, and the Bosnian unrest in 2014. The thesis aims to bring better understanding of citizenship rhetorics dynamics and its implications for the contested legitimacy of the Bosnian statehood and thus contribute to the ongoing scholarly and political debate on this issue, which is closely related to future visions of Bosnian state and polity. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Džankić, Jelena. Citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro: Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges.Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
Štiks, Igor. Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Sarajlic´, Eldar. “Conceptualising citizenship regime(s) in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina.” In Citizenship after Yugoslavia, ed. Jo Shaw and Igor Štiks. Routledge, 2013, 83-98. Hausendorf, Heiko, and Alfons Bora, eds. Analysing citizenship talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes. Vol. 19. John Benjamins Publishing, 2006. Shaw, Jo, and Igor Štiks. "Citizenship in the new states of South Eastern Europe." Citizenship studies (special issue) 16, no. 3-4 (2012). Brubaker, Rogers. "National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the new Europe." Daedalus (1995): 107-132. Asen, Robert. "A discourse theory of citizenship." Quarterly Journal of Speech 90, no. 2 (2004): 189-211. Kock, Christian, and Lisa S. Villadsen. Rhetorical citizenship and public deliberation. Vol. 3. Penn State Press, 2012. Beiner, Ronald, ed. Theorizing Citizenship. State University of New York Press, 1995. Chiara, Milan. "Reshaping Citizenship through Collective Action: Performative and Prefigurative Practices in the 2013–2014 Cycle of Contention in Bosnia & Hercegovina." Europe-Asia Studies 69, no. 9 (2017): 1346-1361. |