The story of grandmother Fata: the legacy of the 1990s ethnic cleansing in Eastern Bosnia

• Authors: Markéta Slavková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses particular discourses and imageries of the continuation of war, genocide, and the legacy of politics of ethnic cleansing in the area of Podrinje in Eastern Bosnia, which are further illustrated in the case of Fata Orlović – a postwar returnee to Konjević Polje of Bosnian Muslim origin, on whose land the Serbian Orthodox Church illegally built a large church building after the last war. This article explains the context in which Fata’s family property was unlawfully appropriated and suggests that, symbolically, the church in Konjević Polje served to legitimize the war appropriations, killings, and postwar ethnically cleansed landscape.

Keywords

EN

Bosnian War 1992-1995; Fata Orlović; Konjević Polje; post-Dayton BiH; property appropriation; Srebrenica genocide

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 341-359
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Markéta Slavková

• Slovanský přehled, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic