ISBN:
9780857457776
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (288 p.)
Series Statement:
Space and Place 10
DDC:
305.800949742
Keywords:
Collective memory / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Collective memory / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Collective memory
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Ethnic relations
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Forced migration / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Forced migration / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Forced migration
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Group identity / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Group identity / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Group identity
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Refugees / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Refugees / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Refugees
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 / Refugees / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 / Refugees / Bosnia and Herzegovina
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1515/9780857457776
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857457776
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857457776
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