Unforgetting and the Politics of Representation: Voices from Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina [Hardcover]

Based on interviews in Bosnia and Herzegovina with survivors of the war and war rape, as well as those working with survivors, this book draws on the narratives of those who experienced the conflict, employing feminist ethnography and auto-ethnography to challenge monolithic accounts of the war based on ethnic identity and intolerance.

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???

The Logic of Home: Transnational Fieldnotes on Peace

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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 autoethnography, this volume offers systematic engagement with the politics of representation of Bosnia and survivors of war in post-war journalism and scholarship.

Through rich and varied individual experiences of wartime violence and recovery that go beyond simple us vs them narratives of ethnic idl»