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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Halilovich, Hariz,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Space and Place ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Pronunciation of Some Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Characters -- Glossary of Non-English Words -- List of Selected Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Journey through Bosnian War-torn Communities -- Chapter 1: Klotjevac -- Chapter 2: Beyond the Sadness -- Chapter 3: (Dis)Placing Memories -- Interlude: Reframing Identity in Places of Pain -- Chapter 4: Trans-local Diasporic Communities in the Age of Transnationalism -- Chapter 5: Measuring the Pain of Others -- Conclusion: Concluding the Journey through Bosnian War-torn Communities -- Bibliography -- Index