Abstract
This article explores humour’s role as a coping mechanism during the Bosnian War (1992 − 5) in besieged Sarajevo. It focuses on dark ethnic jokes, highlighting their entertainment value amid war tensions. These jokes also reflect the intergroup dynamics in Sarajevo and express different kinds of nationalisms – gendered nationalism, Balkanism, and banal nationalism as sensed in jokes about besieged Sarajevo, gendered jokes, UNPROFOR jokes, army jokes, and ethno-national jokes. By examining these forms of humour, this article provides insight into how laughter and satire intertwined with war, identity, and nationalism in besieged Sarajevo.
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