„Only when the spider web becomes too heavy“ Cover Image

„Kога ќе натежне пајажината“
„Only when the spider web becomes too heavy“

Author(s): Azra Hromadžić
Subject(s): National Economy, Government/Political systems, Social development, Economic development, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Филозофскиот факултет во Скопје
Keywords: Bosnian youth;Bosnia and Herzegovina; politics; transition; economic development;

Summary/Abstract: The socio-political and economic environment in which young Bosnians come of age emerged as a result of larger global restructuring from socialism to neoliberalism, and from war to postwar external state-making. This fragile and uncertain context of „double transition“ (Gligorov 2000) encourages political and economic uncertainty, which leaves many youth citizen disoriented and unprepared to engage in a fight for social welfare. Left without a socialist government to take care of their basic needs, pro spects and employment, many young people, exhausted by the legacies of war traumas, and worn out from the undergoing struggles for “bare life” (Agamben 1998) – rudimentary physical and economic survival – find themselves perpetually unemployed. As a result, they withdraw from any political public while „passively“ waiting for better times to arrive and/or hoping to permanently leave their „elsewhere state“

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 11/1
  • Page Range: 45-87
  • Page Count: 43
  • Language: English, Macedonian