Object's details: Between Official Truth and Personal Memory: Oral Histories of Civilians and Soldiers in the Post-Yugoslav Wars 1991–1995

Provider:Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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Title:
Between Official Truth and Personal Memory: Oral Histories of Civilians and Soldiers in the Post-Yugoslav Wars 1991–1995
Creator:
Petrović, Nebojša;
Lazić, Aleksandra
Description:
In times of violent conflicts, societies tend to promote narratives that enable successful coping with the situation. Official collective memory can thus provide foundation for a group’s belonging, mobilization, persistence. On the other hand, it often perpetuates the animosity by, for example, delegitimizing (and often dehumanizing) the other side. In this article, we explore whether unofficial personal memories of a violent conflict could mitigate the damage in intergroup relations done by the dominating narratives. We conducted a secondary thematic analysis of 38 interviews with civilians and soldiers in the Post-Yugoslav wars (1991–1995). The themes we report here offer deeply personal and humanizing accounts of the war experience, which have largely remained outside traditional historiography.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2019.08.14
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
Croatian
Source:
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 16 (2019): Między amnezją i anamnezą. Indywidualna pamięć historyczna wobec dominujących narracji; 227-241;
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 16 (2019): Między amnezją i anamnezą. Indywidualna pamięć historyczna wobec dominujących narracji; 227-241;
2450-2731;
2084-3011
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/19551/19504
Subject:
oral history;
post-Yugoslav wars;
reconciliation;
rehumanization;
collective memory;
thematic analysis
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/19551
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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