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Unforgetting and the Politics of Representation: Voices from Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina book cover

1st Edition

Unforgetting and the Politics of Representation Voices from Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Tatjana Takševa Copyright 2025
222 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Based on interviews and conversations in the Bosnian Federation with women survivors of war rape, children born of armed conflict, leaders of NGOs who work with survivors, and people who lived through the war and who experienced it in different ways, this book challenges one-dimensional representations of the Yugoslav war and subsequent peacebuilding processes. Relying on feminist ethnography and... Read more

Introduction: Pathways to Bosnia

 

Part I

1.      Why Stories Matter 

2.      Ecologies of Peace

3.      Bosnia Beyond Balkanism

4.      Sarajevo the Beautiful

5.      Growing Up Under Siege

 

 

Part II

 

1.      Unforgetting the Children Born Because of War

2.      What Does It Mean to Be a Child Born Because of War?

 

Part III

 

1.      The Space of Dialogue: Women Who Lived Through Violence

2.      The Vulnerable and the Brave, in Their Own Words  

3.       Esma D., a Bosnian Woman Fighter   

 

Conclusion: The Logic of Home: Transnational Fieldnotes on Peace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Tatjana Takševa is Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary's University, Canada. Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2003), and is the author of numerous essays on feminist theory, nation building and the maternal, and co-editor of Mothering Under Fire: Mothers and Mothering in Conflict Zones (2015) and Motherhood and Migration (forthcoming, 2026).

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