Social Mobilization Beyond Ethnicity Civic Activism and Grassroots Movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina

This book analyses the emergence and unfolding of social mobilization beyond ethnicity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a society deeply divided along lines of ethno-national identification. By applying and adapting notions and tools derived from social movements literature, the author explains the different diffusion of the protests across the country and social groups. Arguing that individuals and groups involved in the mobilization overcame the centrality of ethnicity as social construct, the author examines the factors accounting for protests diffusion and explores the conditions that allowed civic activism to emerge and rise, and a new collective identity stepping over ethno-national boundaries to come into being.