The Peace Academy was a partner with the Network for Peacebuilding in translating and publishing five academic books dedicated to the fight against right-wing populism, religious and ethno-national radicalization and violent extremism intended for the academic and activist communities. This project was initiated to make globally important topics additionally accessible to the BiH academic and activist communities by presenting and distributing the books free of charge.
The second book Headlines of the Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe (Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford, 2011) edited by Don Kalb and Gábor Halmai explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through a class prism. One of the key questions raised in this piece is why the working class in Europe is giving more and more votes to far right populist parties. The book consists of studies from Western and Eastern Europe, including Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Italy and Austria. Given that the class prism is under-represented and almost non-existent in thematizing ethno-nationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book can provide information and help more serious research in this area.
Access to the BCS translation can be found via the BCS Publications pages.
The project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implementation was supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) within the BHRI program.
