Sandžak and Sandžaklije in a State of Flux: Nation-building and Politics of In/Exc
                   between Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia During Three Decades of Yugoslavia’s Disinte











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            * Daniel Heler – Markéta Slavková
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            Abstract

            This article deals with the contemporary history of Sandžak in the broader context of the 
            socially, and culturally formative processes that accompanied the disintegration of the So
            Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The focus is the formation and negotiation of ethnonational

            amongst the local people of Muslim origin in relation to the recent regional political dev
            article discusses mainly the political negotiations of the “Sandžak Muslim” identity in th
            three capitals of Belgrade, Podgorica, and Sarajevo. We suggest that the aforementioned so

            (state-building processes, regime and ideology metamorphoses), and also economic transform
            Montenegro, and Bosnia had a significant impact on development of public identities amongs

            of Muslim origin who inhabit the historical region of Sandžak. These issues also open the 
            the politics of social inclusion and exclusion, since Sandžaklije of Muslim origin were of
            and some even persecuted in the relatively recent past by the dominant regime. This study 

            an interdisciplinary approach combining mainly historical and political analysis with the 
            application of sociocultural anthropology.


            Keywords: Sandžak; Bosniaks; Muslims; national identity; national minorities; ethnicity; i
            relations; social inclusion and exclusion; integration; state-building; break-up of Yugosl


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