Između zvanične istine i ličnog sećanja: Usmene istorije civila i vojnika o post- -jugoslovenskim ratovima 1991–1995

• Authors: Nebojša Petrović , Aleksandra Lazić

Title variants

EN

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

• Languages of publication: HR

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

oral history; post-Yugoslav wars; reconciliation; rehumanization; collective memory; thematic analysis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 16
• Pages: 227-241

Dates

published

2019-08-14

Contributors

author

Nebojša Petrović

• Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1623-4018

author

Aleksandra Lazić

• Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-0483

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pss.2019.16.13