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Author Halilovich, Hariz

Title Places of Pain : Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Space and Place
Space and place.
Contents HALILOVICH_PRELIMS-Pii-xvi.pdf; HALILOVICH_INTRO-P001-020; HALILOVICH_CH01-P021-052; HALILOVICH_CH02-P053-078; HALILOVICH_CH03-P079-110; HALILOVICH_INTERLUDE-P111-117; HALILOVICH_CH04-P118-154; HALILOVICH_CH05-P155-200; HALILOVICH_CONCLUSION-P201-232; HALILOVICH_BIBLIO-P233-260; HALILOVICH_INDEX-P262
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Refugees -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Refugees -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Forced migration -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Group identity -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Collective memory -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Collective memory
Ethnic relations
Forced migration
Group identity
Refugees
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Identität
Vertreibung
Bosnienkrieg
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Ethnic relations
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012033459
ISBN 9780857457776
0857457772
1299777562
9781299777569
0857457764
9780857457769