Dehumanizacija bosanskog BIOSA: Biopolitika u rukama etnonacionalizma / Dehumanization of the Bosnian BIOS: Biopolitics in the Hands of Ethnonationalism

Abstract

The paper analyzes the broader perspective of biopolitics through the theoretical concepts of reference authors with a special focus on the Serbo-Croatian big-state ideologies of ethno-nationalism that use biopolitics to dehumanize Bosnian society. Respecting the specificity of the complex processes that take place within the Bosnian society and the hostile environment, the work investigates biopolitical practices that are not observed in detail in the existing analyzes of the phenomenon and can have a significant scientific contribution to the understanding of the Bosnian biopolitical specificity. The research focuses on models of biopolitical control, surveillance and governance of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were generated through the ideologically structured policies of ethno-nationalism of Serbia and Croatia. Analyzing the processes of complete surveillance and regulation of the lives of the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the work actualizes the perspectives of the articulation of the power of big-state centers, which is realized through two different biopolitical praxis that in the end synergistically achieve a unique goal. The first refers to the intentions of the big-state and hegemonic ideologies of Belgrade and Zagreb to make their people in Bosnia different from others by indoctrinating them through the imposition of identity, cultural, economic and political paradigms and thus separate them from the bios of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second praxis is aimed at Bosniaks because they do not belong to the homogenous ethno-national corps of Serbs and Croats and as biological waste are exposed to the harshest forms of biopolitical articulations of power that are realized through ethnic cleansing, camps and genocide. This shows the criminal face of biopolitics impregnated with ethno-nationalist doctrine according to which Bosniaks (Muslims, Turks) are not our kind of people, dehumanizing them in this way and legitimizing their violent removal from the living space, which points to the conclusion that the Bosnian context of dehumanization is perceived as biological reduction to human material - dehumanization, reducing a member of a certain group (Bosniak) and his life to impure material.