Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities

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...

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Main Author: Halilovich, Hariz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2013]
Series:Space and Place 10
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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 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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
ISBN:9780857457776
DOI:10.1515/9780857457776

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