For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors' places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity. It is even more the case when those places have been vandalized, divided up, brutalized and scarred. However, as the author shows, these places of humiliation and suffering are also places of desire, with displaced survivors emulating their former homes in the far corners of the globe where they have resettled.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Figures
Acknowledgements
A note on pronunciation of some specific Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian characters
Glossary of non-English words
List of selected abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Journey through Bosnian War torn Communities
- Writing Displacement of Bosnians
- Practical Challenges
- Theoretical Challenges
- Methodological Challenges
- Reflexive Ethnography
- Ethics and Politics of the Research
Chapter 2. Klotjevac: Forced Displacement and 'Ethnic Cleansing' in an Eastern Bosnian Village
- Reunion
- When You Forget July
- Journey to a Village
- Once there was a Community
- Beliefs and Rituals
- Taboos
- In sljivovica Veritas
- Human Geography of the Place
- Annihilation of a Community
- The '(UN)Safe Area' Srebrenica
- Recognising Genocide
- Back to the Present
- Mapping displacement
- Conclusion
Chapter 3. Beyond the Sadness: Narratives of Displacement, Refuge and Homecomings among Bosnian Refugees in Austria
- Debating Displacement
- Narrating Displacement
- Sejo in Vienna
- Edita's 'Wonderland' in Vienna
Mapping Edita's Lost Home
Less than 'Six Degrees of Separation' Between Edita and Ibro - Prijedor Region-Blueprint for 'Ethnic Cleansing'
- Massacre in Hegici
- Massacre in Brdo
- Edita, Ibro and Sejo in Austria
- Edita's Homecoming
- Torn Between Home and Exile, Past and Present
Chapter 4. (Dis)Placing Memories: Monuments, Memorials and Commemorations in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The Funeral at Hegici
- Omarska
- Keraterm and Trnopolje
- Srebrenica/Potocari Commemorations
- Mostar Carrying its Cross
- Sarajevo Remembers
Chapter 5. Reframing Identity in Places of Pain: A Photographic Essay of Displacement and Memory
Chapter 6. Trans-local Diasporic Communities in the Age of Transnationalism: Bosnians in Australia, Europe and the US
- Debating Diaspora
- Emergence of the Bosnian Diaspora
- One Family, Two Languages, Many Cultures
- 'German Bosnians' in Sweden and 'Aussie Bosnians' from Germany
- The Trans-local Within the Transnational
- Brcko in Melbourne
- Strengthening Unity through Inter-marriage
- Other Forms of Trans-localism in Action
- Formation of Trans-local Diasporic Communities
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. Measuring the Pain of Others: Gendered Displacement, Memory and Identity
- Re-counting the Displaced
- 'Not in My Front Yard!': The Case of Fata Orlovic
- Ethnic Engineering
- Uncounted 'Collateral Damage': The Case of Aunty Edina
- (Mis)using IDPs
- RefugeeWomen in Diaspora
- Mothers' Children
Chapter 8. Concluding the Journey through Bosnian War-torn Communities
- Bosnian Vikings
- Bosnian Midwesterners
- Vienna Blues
- Unearthing the Missing in Bosnia
- From St Louis to St Albans: All Roads Lead to Hanna's Café
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