The article considers the problem of the representation of the last war in Bosnia‐Herzegovina (1992–1995) in the history textbooks of the Republic of Srpska (Serb Republic)‐one of the entities in the country.* The analysed textbooks are deliberately used as one of the most important instruments for the formation of national identity. Scholars generally agree that history lessons are in fact lessons in patriotism and that nation‐states use history to form the national identity of students and guarantee loyalty to the nation and state. While contemporary Bosnia‐Herzegovina supports this view, it must simultaneously be seen as a slightly peculiar case. The textbooks used in Bosnia‐Herzegovina promote separate, exclusive national identities: the Bosniac, Croatian and Serbian. This to a large extent explains why we are not witnessing the formation of a unified nation‐state, but its slow disintegration. The existence of Bosnia‐Herzegovinian culture and identity is intentionally neglected and denied. Serbian narratives about the war clearly show that strong aspiration for unification with the neighbouring Serbia still exists. This idea has proved to be dangerous in the past and might lead to a new tragic episode in Bosnia‐Herzegovinian history.

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The article explores sevdalinka as regional musical genre that represents contradictory ideological positions. The focus is on the various celebrities’ discourses with obvious political connotations that have been productive in the making of sevdalinka in past and present Bosnian-Herzegovinian contexts. *** V članku avtorja razkrivata nasprotujoče si ideološke pozicije, kakor se zrcalijo v regionalnem glasbenem žanru – sevdalinki. V središče zanimanja postavljata različne diskurze zvezdnikov, v katerih je mogoče razbrati očitne politične konotacije, saj so zvezdniki bistveno sooblikovali sevdalinko, in sicer tako v bosansko-hercegovski preteklosti kot v sodobnosti.

This article follows the transformation of memories on Sarajevo assassination, reflected during the Assassination Centennial in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The author focuses mostly on touristic representations of Gavrilo Princip and new discourses framed in the Federation BH, in particular counter-discourses that challenge the simplified understanding of memorialisation practices in post-conflict societies as simple battles of antagonistic nationalised versions of the past. V članku so analizirane transformacije spomina na sarajevski atentat ob stoletnici dogodka v Bosni in Hercegovini.Osredinjen je zlasti na turistične reprezentacije Gavrila Principa in nove diskurze v Federaciji Bosne in Hercegovine, med njimi tudi kontradiskurze, ki zavračajo poenostavljeno razumevanje spominjanja kot preprostega boja med antagonističnimi, nacionaliziranimi različicami preteklosti v post-konfliktnih družbah.

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