CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Maksimovic, Sara |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender, Memory and Youth Culture in Postwar Vukovar, Croatia |
| Summary | The Battle of Vukovar in 1991 was one of the most violent events in Europe after World War II and a crucial point in the war for Croatian independence (1991-1995). Once a harmonious multiethnic city, Vukovar is now an ethnically segregated community. The postwar generations in Vukovar are born into isolated ethnic communities: Croats and Serbs attend different kindergarten and school programs, even different cafés. This thesis examines ethnic segregation as a state of prolonged conflict which affects Serbian and Croatian youth. It focuses on the position of youth culture in the hegemonic memorial culture of Vukovar, which is characterized by the organization of urban life around gendered nationalist narratives of war. Relying on interviews with teachers and students, as well as other textual and visual materials, I argue that postwar youth culture in Vukovar is a form of negotiation and resistance to the dominant culture which reinforces ethnic segregation through the mobilization of cultural trauma and gendered narratives of nationhood, and propose that ‘youth’ is a powerful category through which these hegemonic narratives can be challenged. |
| Supervisor | Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/maksimovic_sara.pdf |
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