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How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Monika Palmberger
2016
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ‘rewritten’ following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events. It argues that the dramatic and often brutal transformations that Bosnia and Herzegovina has witnessed have led to alterations in memory politics, not to mention disparities in the life situations faced by the different generations in present-day post-war Mostar. This in turn has created variations in memories along generational lines, which affect how individuals narrate and position themselves in relation to the country's history. This detailed and engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, history and oral history, particularly those with an interest in memory, post-socialist Europe and conflict studies.
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Keywords
- Anthropologie
- anthropology
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosnien und Herzegovina
- Collective memory
- Conflict
- conflict studies
- Croats
- Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Cultural Studies
- Culture—Study and teaching
- Erinnerung
- Erinnerungspolitik
- Ethnographie
- ethnography
- Europe
- Generation
- Geschichte
- Historiography
- History
- History: theory & methods
- Humanities
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- International relations
- Jugoslawien
- kollektive Erinnerung
- Lebensabschnitt
- Life Course
- Memory
- Memory politics
- Mostar
- Narrativ
- Narrative
- Nation
- Nostalgia
- Nostalgie
- Peace
- Peace studies & conflict resolution
- Political Science
- Politics
- Politics & government
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Serbs
- Social sciences
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography
- transformation
- World War II
- yugoslavia
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-45063-0web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-45063-0
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