By Elissa Helms, Xavier Bougarel
Because the violent occasions of the Bosnian battle and the revelations of ethnic detoxing that stunned the realm within the early Nineteen Nineties, Bosnia has develop into a metaphor for the hot ethnic nationalisms, for the transformation of conflict within the submit - chilly warfare period, and for brand new types of peacekeeping and nation - construction. It has spawned an intensive literature, from journalistic enquiries to educational works, despite the fact that a lot of this literature bargains with the felony personality of the conflict and the institutional framework manage by way of the Dayton Peace contract. The authors of this new publication argue that whereas the realities of submit - battle Bosnia are certainly strongly encouraged by means of Dayton and how it's been applied, they could by no means be decreased to it. This booklet is exclusive in supplying a second look of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom - up' point of view. It gathers jointly political scientists and social anthropologists, a few of whom all started engaged on Bosnia - Herzegovina within the Eighties (including a few from the previous Yugoslavia) and others who came across the rustic in the course of and after the battle. The authors contemplate either the specificities of the Bosnian case, discussing the problems of the peace procedure, in particular within the the most important interval among 1999 and 2003. notwithstanding, the booklet additionally increases broader questions: What are the results of internecine violence and the way may still societies try and conquer them? Are the uncertainties and the modifications of Bosnian post-war society due solely to the battle, or are they on the topic of wider approaches encompassing post-communist Europe as an entire? And are the problems skilled via foreign protectorates quite often because of particular positive aspects of the neighborhood societies or are they a result of guidelines promoted through the corporations themselves?
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However, as Maþek argues, Sarajevans did not just passively endure the chaos of war: their everyday strategies for survival were accompanied by a will to maintain some semblance of routine and normality, to regain a hold on their own war experience and lives and thereby recover a positive meaning for that part of their lives. In Chapter Two, Anders Stefansson carries the focus on Sarajevo into the postwar period, exploring the social and cultural transformations experienced in the city after the departure of a large portion of the pre-war population and a massive influx of people displaced by the war.
In Chapter Two, Anders Stefansson carries the focus on Sarajevo into the postwar period, exploring the social and cultural transformations experienced in the city after the departure of a large portion of the pre-war population and a massive influx of people displaced by the war. As a result of these shifts, many Sarajevans consider themselves ‘in exile’ in a city they do not recognize any more. At the same time, they deny the ‘invaders’ the right to settle in their new place of residence. For similar reasons, some of those who left during the war have hesitated to return.
Sampson 2002b; Stubbs and Deacon 1998) in former Yugoslavia reveals both points of convergence and divergence. Against this background, we now turn to a discussion of the ethnographic perspectives used in this book, in hopes of demonstrating their advantages in contributing to a better understanding of postwar Bosnia, and of encouraging a fruitful dialogue between anthropologists and other social scientists working on post-war societies. From Socialist Ethnology to Socio-Cultural Anthropology The impetus for this book came out of the editors’ own experiences: as we conducted research in post-war Bosnia (Duijzings 2002b; Helms 2003a; World Bank 2002), we were struck by the disconnects between ‘top-down’ political analyses and what we and other researchers were seeing ‘on the ground’.