Constructing "ideal victim" stories of Bosnian war survivors

Basic, Goran

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dc.contributor.author	Basic, Goran	de
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-21T06:01:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-21T06:01:07Z
dc.date.issued	2015	de
dc.identifier.issn	2183-2803	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/45026
dc.description.abstract	Previous research on victimhood during and after the Bosnian war has emphasized the importance of narratives but has not focused on narratives about victimhood or analyzed post-war interviews as a competition for victimhood. This article tries to fill this gap using stories told by survivors of the Bosnian war during the 1990s. In this analysis of the retold experiences of 27 survivors of the war in northwestern Bosnia, the aim is to describe the informants' portrayal of "victimhood" as a social phenomenon as well as analyzing the discursive patterns that contribute to constructing the category "victim". When, after the war, different categories claim a "victim" status, it sparks a competition for victimhood. All informants are eager to present themselves as victims while at the same time the other categories' victim status are downplayed. In this reproduction of competition for the victim role, all demarcations that were played out so successfully during the war live on.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.title	Constructing "ideal victim" stories of Bosnian war survivors	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/socialinclusion/article/view/249	de
dc.source.journal	Social Inclusion
dc.source.volume	3	de
dc.publisher.country	MISC
dc.source.issue	4	de
dc.subject.classoz	Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy	en
dc.subject.classoz	Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik	de
dc.subject.classoz	Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories	en
dc.subject.thesoz	soziale Integration	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Kriegsopfer	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Krieg	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social integration	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Erzählung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	measurement	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Kriminalität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	narrative	en
dc.subject.thesoz	post-war period	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Bosnien-Herzegowina	de
dc.subject.thesoz	war	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Täter	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Messung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Nachkriegszeit	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political criminality	en
dc.subject.thesoz	war victim	en
dc.subject.thesoz	offender	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.source.pageinfo	25-37	de
internal.identifier.classoz	10201
internal.identifier.classoz	10507
internal.identifier.journal	786
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	320
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dc.source.issuetopic	Regular issue / indicators and measurement of social inclusion	de
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v3i4.249	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
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dc.description.misc	socinclusion-249	de
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