ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the relation of young people to monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) because they are the intended audience. But rather than inspiring them or forging a sense of historical consciousness, the monuments had the opposite effect on young people of BiH, seemingly confirming the often-repeated trope that there is nothing as invisible as a public monument. The only construction that is seemingly happening at even greater speed and intensity than monuments in BiH is the construction of neoliberal infrastructure. As young people are leaving, the country itself is getting more half-empty shopping centres and nationalist monuments. BiH appears as a particular history (of ethnic hatred) and a historical category. In this history, if BiH in the 1990s was always about the national question and ethnic conflict, BiH in the second decade of the twenty-first century is about the re-introduction of capital and deregulation.
