Places of Pain

Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities

von Hariz Halilovich

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Space and Place
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781782387626
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2015
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books