1st Edition

Social Aspects of Memory Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina

By Alma Jeftic Copyright 2019
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Social Aspects of Memory presents a compelling study of how ordinary people remember war. Whilst the book focuses on the cities of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jeftić also presents narratives from other war-torn cities and countries around the world. This book adopts a unique approach, by looking at how perpetrators and victims (as well as new... Read more

Preface





Chapter 1 - Sarajevo for Beginners: History, Culture and Politics from the Ottoman Empire to Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina





Chapter 2 - The Siege of Sarajevo between „Mnene" and „Anamnesis"



Chapter 3 - Sins of Memory: Terror of Remembrance and Terror of Forgetting





Chapter 4 - Memory and Remembrance in Divided Bosnia-Herzegovina between a "labour in vain" and perspective taking





 

Biography

Alma Jeftic is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, President of the Association of Psychologists in Federation Bosnia-Herzegovina – Sarajevo Subsidiary, and a Governing Board member of the Research Network on Transnational memory and Identity in Europe (Council for European Studies at Columbia University).