Citation

Balić EG. Slav. Rev. 2009; 68(1): 116-138.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Abstract

While a central policy of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II called for the removal of "Serbs," the majority of people who identified themselves (or were identified by the regime) as Serbs in Sarajevo--the second largest city in the state--remained "safe." In order to understand why this was the case, Emily Greble Balić examines the interplay between local identity politics and state policies of genocide and nation-building. In so doing, she sheds light on such broad issues as the ambiguity of national identity at the local level; the limitations of traditional understandings of "resistance"; and the options open to members of the victim, or "foreign" group, as a result of the disjunction between national and local agendas.