ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses contemporary youth in Albania, seeking to identify the ways in which Albanian youth consume, engage, deflect and ignore nationalist politics. Through in-depth interviews, surveys and a classroom discussion with a sample of young individuals, we explore how youth in Albania include the idea of politics in their daily lives, and how the tendencies of politicization or de-politicization have complicated ethnic identities. We show that youth are engaged in politics in complex ways, and that their political engagement affects the reproduction of the ethnic identity, and can produce new beyond-ethnic identities.
