ABSTRACT
This chapter explores political fights on the transitional map of the Balkans and show how it is— quite literally— inscribed with graffiti in the towns of the region: (anti-)nationalism. The difference lies more or less only in the tone: graffiti express intolerance in a more direct, abrupt way than the words coming from podiums or public statements. The current increase of nationalism has nothing to do with its romantic and organic perception, with its culture, history, heritage, common fate, and similar essentialisms. Ethno-nationalist extremism in all its forms—from armed to bureaucratic, from the one in graffiti to the one included in party programmes—is not something alien but an integral part of contemporary politics in democratic societies. Most of the extremism that has been sprayed, drawn, written, or pasted in the post-socialist urbanscape by the right-wing extremists was said or done beforehand by people in power.
