Acknowledging the saliency ‘ethnonationality’ has acquired in the post-Yugoslav scenario, this article analyses the ‘evolution’ of the meanings and functions of the term ethnonational belonging in the context of Macedonia, and it does so from both macro-structural and micro-individual perspectives. Alongside providing an overview of how ethnonationality has evolved from a political-institutional perspective, empirical material collected in Skopje with members of a Yugoslav and a post-Yugoslav generation explores possible changes also from an individual and generational perspective. The article seeks to understand the micro-generational impact of macro-structural changes and the generational responses to the same, shedding light on the intertwine of individual and collective experiences, reasons, and interests sustaining and legitimising the current ethnic politics and divisions.

承认在后南斯拉夫的情况下获得了显着的“民族国籍”，本文分析了在马其顿语境下“民族归属”一词的含义和功能的“演变”，它是从宏观结构和微观角度进行的。个人观点。除了从政治制度的角度概述民族国籍的发展方式之外，斯科普里与南斯拉夫和后南斯拉夫一代的成员一起收集的经验材料还从个人和世代角度探讨了可能的变化。本文旨在了解宏观结构变化的微观世代影响及其对世代的反应，从而阐明个体和集体经验的交织，原因，