Old Stories, Young Dreams

Abstract

This thesis presents, in the form of narrative ethnography, a new way of writing ethnography, based on the stories of young urban intellectuals and political activists in Novi Sad, Serbia. While they find themselves on Europe’s threshold of in and out, in the northern Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina a cultural and political war is taking place, dominated by discussions concerning the nation, multiculturality and Europeanness, but also sovereignty, Balkanism and Orientalism. .