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Informationen zum Autor Hariz Halilovich , social anthropologist and writer, is a Professor at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne. His research interests include place-based identity politics, forced migration, politically motivated violence, memory studies and human rights. He has been recipient of a number of prestigious research and writing awards in Australia and internationally. Klappentext 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...
