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How a Collective Trauma Influences Ethno-Religious Relations of Adolescents in Present-Day Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Abstract This article combines a historical perspective on intergenerational transmission of collective trauma with a psychoanthropological approach in regards to the construction of multiple identifications by Bosniak adolescents growing up
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the Balkan war that took place in... view more
This article combines a historical perspective on intergenerational transmission of collective trauma with a psychoanthropological approach in regards to the construction of multiple identifications by Bosniak adolescents growing up
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the Balkan war that took place in the early 1990s. This research is based on the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted during my three-month stay in Sarajevo, a city that has been the center of battles between
Bosnian Serbs and Bosniaks. The aim of this research is to understand the ways in which memories of the war linger on in contemporary interethnic and interreligious relations. I applied Dialogical Self Theory to analyze dilemmas
and ambiguities emerging from the multiple identifications of Muslim adolescents, to whom coexistence with Bosnian Serbs has come to be part of everyday life. During oral histories, my informants expressed a desire to maintain a sense
of normality, consisting of a stable political and economic present and future. I argue that nationalist ideologies on ethno-religious differences which were propagated during the war stand in the way of living up to this desire. On a micro level, people try to manage their desire for normality by promoting a certain degree of social cohesion and including the ethno-religious other to a shared national identity of ‘being Bosnian’. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
civil war; religious group; self-therapy; post-war society; social relations; post-war period; Bosnia and Herzegovina; reconciliation; ethnicity; adolescent; trauma; ethnic group; culture of remembrance; collective identity; military conflict; cultural identity
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 133-143
Journal
Social Inclusion, 4 (2016) 2
Issue topic
Religious Diversity and Social Inclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works