Post-war identification, everyday Muslim counterdiscourse in Bosnia Herzegovina, Torsten Kolind
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- Muslims -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Stolac -- Ethnic identity
- Reconciliation + Social aspects -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Stolac
- Stolac (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Ethnic relations
- Electronic books
- Stolac (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Social conditions
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 + Refugees -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Stolac
- Group identity -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Stolac
- Return migration -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Stolac
- Muslims -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Stolac -- Social conditions
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Post-war identification, everyday Muslim counterdiscourse in Bosnia Herzegovina, Torsten Kolind
Language
eng
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Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Post-war identification
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Torsten Kolind
Sub title
everyday Muslim counterdiscourse in Bosnia Herzegovina
Summary
Stolac, the town of departure for this book and the site where the author conducted fieldwork, is located in the south-western corner of Bosnia Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-95) was initially an act of aggression and territorial conquest instigated by Serbian political leaders. However, as the war progressed, it increasingly came to consist of several minor wars, one of them fought in Western Bosnia Herzegovina between Croatian and Muslim forces. This was the one that affected the inhabitants of Stolac the most. Before the war, ethnic identity in Bosnia Herzegovina was only one identity among others, and ethnic differences were embedded in everyday practices. Today, ethnic difference is all there is. The Muslims of Stolac are fully aware that as Muslims, they constitute a totally separate group - and that ethnic identity is by far the most important form of identity in present-day Bosnia Herzegovina. In that regard the nationalist project has succeeded. Such a crystallisation and explication of identity fits in well with the structurally inspired anthropology of war and violence, which theorises that the function of violence is to create unambiguous identities. However, Post-War Identities shows that for the Muslims of Stolac, the creation of unambiguous ethnic identities is only half the story
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