Re-making Kozarac : agency, reconciliation and contested return in post-war Bosnia / Sebina Sivac-Bryant.
2016
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Title
Re-making Kozarac : agency, reconciliation and contested return in post-war Bosnia / Sebina Sivac-Bryant.
Author
Sivac-Bryant, Sebina author
ISBN
9781137588388 (electronic book)
9781137588371
1137588373
9781137588371
1137588373
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-58838-8 doi
9781137588371
9781137588371
Call Number
DR1750
Dewey Decimal Classification
949.703
Summary
This book explores agency, reconciliation and minority return within the context of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. It focuses on a community in North-West Bosnia, which successfully reversed the worst episode of ethnic cleansing prior to Srebrenica by fighting for return, and then establishing one of the only successful examples of contested minority return in the town of Kozarac. The book is a result of a longitudinal, decade-long study of a group of people who discovered a remarkable level of agency and resilience, largely without external support, and despite many of the people and institutions who were responsible for their violent expulsion remaining in place. Re-Making Kozarac considers how a community's traumatic experiences were utilised as a motivational vehicle for return, and contrasts their pragmatic approach to local compromise with the ill-informed and largely unsuccessful international projects that try to cast them as powerless victims. Importantly, the book offers critical reflections on the interventions of the trauma and reconciliation industries, which can be more harmful than is currently realised. It will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, anthropology and international relations.
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This book explores agency, reconciliation and minority return within the context of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. It focuses on a community in North-West Bosnia, which successfully reversed the worst episode of ethnic cleansing prior to Srebrenica by fighting for return, and then establishing one of the only successful examples of contested minority return in the town of Kozarac. The book is a result of a longitudinal, decade-long study of a group of people who discovered a remarkable level of agency and resilience, largely without external support, and despite many of the people and institutions who were responsible for their violent expulsion remaining in place. Re-Making Kozarac considers how a community's traumatic experiences were utilised as a motivational vehicle for return, and contrasts their pragmatic approach to local compromise with the ill-informed and largely unsuccessful international projects that try to cast them as powerless victims. Importantly, the book offers critical reflections on the interventions of the trauma and reconciliation industries, which can be more harmful than is currently realised. It will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, anthropology and international relations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 1, 2016).
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Palgrave studies in compromise after conflict.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Army of the Dispossessed
Chapter 2. Return
Chapter 3. A Community of Mourners: Collective and Personal Rituals of Loss
Chapter 4. Omarska
Chapter 5. KOZARAC. BA: Online Community as a Network Bridge
Chapter 6. Economic Sustainability in a Land of Corruption
Conclusion. On Return as Redress.
Chapter 1. The Army of the Dispossessed
Chapter 2. Return
Chapter 3. A Community of Mourners: Collective and Personal Rituals of Loss
Chapter 4. Omarska
Chapter 5. KOZARAC. BA: Online Community as a Network Bridge
Chapter 6. Economic Sustainability in a Land of Corruption
Conclusion. On Return as Redress.