The Scent of Ajvar and the Scent of Lavender is a cultural-psychological study that looks at how young people in Serbia, born in the 1990s, understand, perceive, and envision their ethnic belonging, as well as the practices of their ethnic socialization. The particularity of this generation is that it has no personal memories of the period before the Yugoslav wars and dissolution of the country, events which, driven by nationalist ideology, shaped their early childhood and understanding of ethnicity and nationality. The book is critical in nature, basing its criticism of ethnonationalist identifications not only on socio-theoretical and political ground, but reveals it in quotidian experiences of autonomy and resistance among young people.

The Scent of Ajvar and the Scent of Lavender: Limitations and the Freedom of/from Ethnic Identification for Serbia’s Youth

Ana Đorđević

Publishers
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
University of Belgrade

Akademska knjiga
Novi Sad

Book Series
Psyche

221 pages

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN 978-86-82324-17-1