Kultura nacionalnih/etničkih previranja u BiH – Od kulturnog pluraliteta do konstitucionalnog multikulturalizma
The cultural of national/ethnic turmoil in Bosnia and Herzegovina – from cultural plurality to constitutional multiculturalism

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the uncritical use of the term multiculturalism in everyday political discourse by local and international political actors. Focusing on the notion of “cultural identity,” these discourses effect the typical ideological naturalization of politically-generated cultural diversity that constitutes the very essence of ethnopolitical processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results of this discursive practice within the Dayton constitutional polity include the disappearance of the political citizen, the irrelevance of constituent and other non-dominant minorities, legalized discrimination, and most destructive of all, the creation of an interpretative pattern of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s multiculturalism as a tri-ethnic socio-political mosaic, and the view of Bosnia and Herzegovina as imposed on a community of three homogeneous ethno-national, quasi-state communities.

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