How Generations Remember

Author(s)

Monika Palmberger

Abstract

This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ‘rewritten’ following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events. This detailed and engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, history and oral history, particularly those with an interest in memory, post-socialist Europe and conflict studies.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

External organisation(s)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

No. of pages

240

Publication date

2016

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504001 General sociology

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/how-generations-remember(fc594e74-0a6f-4c70-9ac0-e20ee9adc438).html