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Lendák-Kabók Karolina: National Minorities in Serbian Academia: The Role of Gender and Language Barriers. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 183 oldal

This article discusses theories of multiculturalism and ethnicity in light of
the ethnic identification of minority youth. Namely, even though the
primordialism vs. constructivism debate has led to an agreement about seeing
ethnic identities as situational and strategic, often for members of ethnic
minorities, including young people living in multiethnic environments,
ethnic identities seem stable and salient. Relying on the case study of
young Hungarian people in Serbia, the article argues that it is the minority
status and the institutional setup building on ethnic divisions as the main
social frame that make ethnic identities marked. Therefore I connect the
case of Vojvodina Hungarian youth to more general debates on the
multiethnicy, ethnic belonging and minority status.

Abstract
This article addresses trauma, its absence, and the creation of a collective memory among the contributors to the journal Symposion following the 1999 bombing of Serbia. By examining the group's e-mails and conducting interviews with some of its members, it explores how their shared narrative patt erns constitute a mnemonic community, and asks what are the shared cultural frameworks that create a space for collective remembering within that community. The article argues that past and current politics of memory in Serbia have been built on discourses of a victimized nation and therefore do not recognize the specific ethnic, class or gender positions of individuals as they were during the bombing. Conversely, the national discourse on memorializing the bombing fails to articulate individual experiences and commemorative practices. This article therefore aims to present and analyse some of them.