How Generations Remember : Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina

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How Generations Remember : Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina : Palgrave Macmillan : 9781137450623 : 1137450622 : 19 Dec 2016 : This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ?rewritten' following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events. It argues that the dramatic and often brutal transformations that Bosnia and Herzegovina has witnessed h

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