The End of the Yugoslav or the Never Ending Process of Ethnicity Building
This article shows how Yugoslavia’s citizens who accepted the idea of mixing, notably through the nomenclature used in the census, have been the first victims of the process leading to the country’s collapse, process which restored patrilinearity as the unique principle of collective identification. Through the failure of the austro-marxist conception underlying the Yugoslav Federation, the concept of nationality itself, as a legitimate projection of ethnicity, is put under question by the spatial and political redefinitions of the Balkan peninsula, and more broadly of the Central and Eastern Europe. The diverse acceptations of the notion of minority (“minority rights”, “protection of minorities”) are only confirming the paradoxes of the principle of nationalities within the New World Order.