Book Talk: First Nationalism Then Identity

Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) is organizing a Book Talk "First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity" with our Senior Researcher Dr Mirsad Kriještorac.

Dr Kriještorac's book focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the transformative process of full national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over three decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process and how the adoption of their new Bosniak identity occurred. He provides a historical overview ofYugoslav and Bosnian Slavic Muslims’ transformation into a full-fledged distinct and independent national group as well as addresses the important question in the field of nationalism studies about the relationship between and workings of nationalism and identity. While this book is noteworthy for ordinary readers interested in the case of Bosnian Muslims, it is an important contribution to the scholarly debate on the role of nationalism in the political life of a group and adds an interdisciplinary perspective to comparative politics scholarship by drawing from anthropology, history, geography, and sociology.

Speaker:

Dr Mirsad Kriještorac (Minority Issues Research Institute, SK)

Moderator:

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Başak Akar Özer (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi)

The seminar will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at 3:00 pm CET; 2.00 pm WAT; 9:00 am EST

and 6:00 am PDT.

This seminar is organized by the Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI).