Authority, Nation, and Lexicography : A Case Study of Major Serbian Dictionaries

Ethnicity, race and nation should be conceptualized not as substances or things or entities or organisms or collective individuals-as the imagery of discrete, concrete, tangible, bounded and enduring 'groups' encourages us to do-but rather in relational, processual, dynamic, eventful and disaggregated terms.This means thinking of ethnicity, race and nation not in terms of substantial groups or entities but in terms of practical categories, cultural idioms, cognitive schemas, discursive frames, organizational routines, institutional forms, political projects and contingent events.It means thinking of ethnicization, racialization and nationalization as political, social, cultural and psychological processes. 10