TY - BOOK
T1 - The new Bosnian mosaic
T2 - Identities, memories and moral claims in a post-war society
AU - Bougarel, Xavier
AU - Helms, Elissa
AU - Duijzings, Ger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms and Ger Duijzings 2007. All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Since the violent events of the Bosnian war and the revelations of ethnic cleansing that shocked the world in the early 1990s, Bosnia has become a metaphor for the new ethnic nationalisms, for the transformation of warfare in the post-Cold War era, and for new forms of peacekeeping and state-building. This book is unique in offering a re-examination of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom-up' perspective. It gathers together cultural anthropologists and other social scientists to consider the specificities of the Bosnian case. However, the book also raises broader questions: what are the consequences of internecine violence and how should societies attempt to overcome them? Are the uncertainties and the transformations of Bosnian post-war society due entirely to the war, or are they related to wider processes encompassing post-communist Europe as a whole? And are the difficulties experienced by international state-building operations mainly due to distinctive features of the local societies or are they due to the policies promoted by the international community itself?.
AB - Since the violent events of the Bosnian war and the revelations of ethnic cleansing that shocked the world in the early 1990s, Bosnia has become a metaphor for the new ethnic nationalisms, for the transformation of warfare in the post-Cold War era, and for new forms of peacekeeping and state-building. This book is unique in offering a re-examination of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom-up' perspective. It gathers together cultural anthropologists and other social scientists to consider the specificities of the Bosnian case. However, the book also raises broader questions: what are the consequences of internecine violence and how should societies attempt to overcome them? Are the uncertainties and the transformations of Bosnian post-war society due entirely to the war, or are they related to wider processes encompassing post-communist Europe as a whole? And are the difficulties experienced by international state-building operations mainly due to distinctive features of the local societies or are they due to the policies promoted by the international community itself?.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84900263756&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315555256
DO - 10.4324/9781315555256
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85129654033
SN - 9780754645634
BT - The new Bosnian mosaic
PB - Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ER -