Survey Report Bosnia and Herzegovina

In assessing the role of religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina and analysing the multiconfessional context of the country, the report relies on the findings from an opinion survey and a range of secondary sources. The survey, administered during April 2019, aimed at gathering the opinions of influential figures in political, cultural and economic sphere in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the role of religion. It is based on a questionnaire which was distributed to over 50 influential figures, of which 30 provided quantitative and qualitative answers to questions addressing religion’s impact on society

Country Snapshot Bosnia and Herzegovina

A brief summary of the history and current status of religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prostorna mobilnost i procesi deteritorijalizacije i fleksibilizacije društvenog života

U tekstu se nastoji prostornu mobilnost problematizirati u kontekstu suvremene fleksibilne organizacije društvenog života. Nastoji se pokazati da je ekonomija mobilnosti složen i višeznačan proces u kome migracije ne potječu iz ekonomske nerazvijenosti (kao takve) već iz samog (destabilizirajućeg) razvoja. Također, nastoji se pokazati da migranti, ulazeći u globalne trgovačke, informacijske i proizvodne mreže, učestvuju u (pre)oblikovanju socio-prostornih struktura zemalja, regija ili mjesta – kako onih svoga porijekla tako i onih novog stalnog ili privremenog boravka. Time, oni koji svoju mobilnost zasnivaju na prekograničnim aktivnostima, učestvuju u razgradnji ili relativiziranju ranijeg ekskluziviteta “kontejner društva” kao temeljnog orijentacionog okvira djelovanja. U tekstu se analiziraju raspoloživi podaci o oblicima mobilnosti: unutrašnjim i vanjskim migracijama (koje u novom kontekstu već poprimaju i nove oblike mobilnosti – cirkulaciju, povremenost, privremenost), te raznim vrstama putovanja. Zaključuje se da su suvremeni oblici mobilnosti, kao što su i sami proizvod nestabilnosti, sastavni dio nestabilnosti i fleksibilnosti načina života čovjeka uključenog u tokove “umreženog društva”. Suvremeni oblici prostorne mobilnosti svojom raznolikošću, obimom, brzinom i ustrajnošću proizvode novo društveno i prostorno strukturiranje. Ovo kretanje nudi razne mogućnosti razvoja, budi nove masovne nade, ali i nove strahove – kao što se uvijek događa kada je u pitanje dovedeno ono što je bilo relativno stabilno, poznato i predvidljivo. (IN ENGLISH: This text looks at spatial mobility in the context of today’ s flexible organization of social life. It aims to show that the economy of mobility presents a complex and ambigious process in which migrations are not caused by economic underdevelopment as such, but by destabilized development itself. Also, the idea is to point out the fact that migrants entering global trade, information and production network take part in the (re)shaping of sociospatial structures of the countries, regions or places – those of their origin or those of their new temporary or permanent residence. In this way, migrants whose mobility comprises across the border activities deconstruct or put in a different perspective the former exclusive “container society” as the basic framework of activity. The text examines available data on the types of mobility: internal and external migrations (which in the new context take on new forms of mobility – circulation, irregularity, temporariness) and different forms of travel. The conclusion is that contemporary types of mobility, being themselves a product of instability, present an integral part of the unstable and flexible way of life of the “network society” man.

Mobilnost i socio-prostorno restrukturiranje

U ovom radu autor nastoji mobilnost u suvremenom društvu, kao sve značajnije njegovo obilježje, dovesti u veza sa “fluidizacijom” struktura, a odatle sa socioprostornim restrukturiranjem. S tim u vezi se ispituju neki teorijski uvidi kojima se nastoje misaono zahvatiti suvremeni globalni procesi, koji, prema tim uvidima, ostaju (a uslijed “metodološkog nacionalizma”) izvan vidokruga dosadašnjem sociološkom instrumentariju. Pretpostavka je da suvremena fleksibilna akumulacije kapitala stalno, u svojoj reprodukciji (a u svijetu u kome fizička bliskost nužno ne indicira na povezanost među ljudima) revalorizira raspoložive resurse, time povećava mobilnost, restrukturira zatečene socioprostorne entitete, generira destabilizaciju, privremenost, povremenost, a naspram stabilnosti, trajnosti i stalnosti. Postsocijalistička društva su, dakle i hrvatsko društvo, uslijed radikalne promjene u načinu valorizacije resursa (od socijalističkog planiranja do kapitalističkog tržišta) posebno snažno izložena ovom obliku restrukturiranja. Isključeni iz ovog načina reprodukcije, iz njegovih tokova i mreža, ostaju (kao pojedinci, grupe ili kolektivi) na periferiji, zatvoreni u svoju lokalnost, a uključeni, sa svijetom dijele njegove nemire. S povećanjima sposobnosti bivanja pokretnim smanjuju se mogućnosti isključivanja. (IN ENGLISH: In this paper the author aims to bring together the mobility of contemporary society (its increasingly relevant characteristic) and the “fluidity” of structures and thus socio-spatial restructuring. Some theoretical insights into contemporary global processes are examined; these processes remain (because of “methodological nationalism”) outside the scope of present day sociology devices. It is assumed that the flexible contemporary accumulation of capital constantly evaluates available resources for its reproduction (in the world where physical proximity does not indicate closeness among people). This results in the increased mobility and restructuring of old socio-spatial entities. It generates instability, temporariness and irregularity as opposed to stability, permanence and regularity. Postsocialist societies, the Croatian society among them, are particularly prone to this kind of restructuring because of radical changes in the evaluation of resources (from the socialist planned economy to the capitalist market). Not included in this type of reproduction, its currents and networking, these societies (their individuals, groups or collectives) remain on the periphery, isolated in their locality; included, they share the troubles with the rest of the world. More mobility, less isolation.

The Official Bosnian Language at the Beginning of Public Schooling in B&H: Bosniakdom and the Bosnian Language in the Textbooks of Bosnian Franciscans Ambroža Matić and Augustin Miletić

Na temelju dostupne arhivske građe i dodatnih izvora iz literature, u radu se sa sociolingvističkog aspekta u kontekstu imenovanja jezika i jezičkog identiteta pristupa analizi udžbenika bosanskih franjevaca Ambrože Matića i Augustina Miletića, kao primjercima iz korpusa naše početne udžbeničke literature, one koja se odnosi na rani period ili na sami početak bosanskohercegovačkog školstva savremenog (modernijeg) tipa, s ciljem sagledavanja identitarnih jezičkih pitanja koja su u uskoj vezi i s pitanjem narodnog identiteta. Polazna osnova je program državne (franjevačke) osnovne škole u Tolisi (Orašje), još od 1823. godine, na osnovu čega se može govoriti o značajnom jubileju kojim se danas mogu obilježiti dva stoljeća jedne naročito važne tradicije: zvanični bosanski jezik u počecima (u ranom periodu) modernog bh. školstva. Ovdje ćemo analizirati udžbenike s početka XIX stoljeća, u vrijeme kada još nisu zaživjeli procesi nacionalizacije i značajnijeg međusobnog identitarnog udaljavanja domaćeg stanovništva.Based on the available archival material and additional literature, this paper approaches the analysis of the textbooks of the Bosnian Franciscans Ambroža Matić and Augustin Miletić from the sociolinguistic aspect in the context of language naming and linguistic identity. The textbooks serve as examples from the corpus of our initial textbook literature referring to the early period or the very beginning of the contemporary (more modern) type of public schooling in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the aim of looking at identitarian language issues closely related to the issue of national identity. The starting point is the curriculum of the state (Franciscan) primary school in Tolisa (Orašje) from 1823, on the basis of which we can speak of a significant jubilee that today marks two centuries of a particularly important tradition: the official Bosnian language at the beginning (in the early period) of modern public schooling in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Furthermore, the paper shall analyze textbooks from the beginning of the 19th century, at a time when the processes of nationalization and significant mutual identitarian alienation of the local population had not yet taken root

Accentual doublets in standard languages in the Neo-Štokavian base : Bosnian standard accentuation with a focus on the accentuation of verbs

Współczesna bośniacka norma akcentuacyjna ma cechy wspólne ze standardowymi odmianami języków chorwackiego, czarnogórskiego, serbskiego i serbochorwackiego. Dlatego aby precyzyjnie określić, które elementy normy ortoepicznej są bośniackie, należy ją rozpatrywać przede wszystkim w odniesieniu do niej samej. Z uwagi jednak na niespójności, niestabilności i wariantywność formy rdzeni trudno jest ustalić reguły skutecznej normy ortoepicznej, chyba że takie rozwiązanie zakładałoby tolerancję dla dużej liczby wariantów akcentowych. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje problem czasownikowych dubletów akcentowych w standardowej odmianie języka bośniackiego. W tym celu należy przyjąć podejście kontrastywno-komparatystyczne, poprzez porównanie różnych przykładów użycia w językach standardowych opartych na podstawie nowosztokawskiej.Contemporary Bosnian normative accentuation shares common features with Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Serbo-Croatian standard, and therefore in order to determine precisely which elements of the orthoepic norm are Bosnian, it should be considered above all in its own context. However, due to discrepancies, instabilities, and root variation, the task of establishing the principles of an efficient orthoepic norm remains a difficult one, unless such a solution were to tolerate a wide variety of accentual variants. This paper studies accentual doublets of verbs in the Bosnian standard. To this end, it is particularly important to assume a contrastive-comparative perspective, by evaluating varying usage in the standard languages with a Neo-Štokavian base