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- One of the ?Evening Standard’s best books of 2016
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)
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Re-Making Kozarac considers how a community's traumatic experiences were utilised as a motivational vehicle for return, and contrasts their pragmatic approach to local compromise with the ill-informed and largely unsuccessful international projects that try to cast them as powerless victims. Importantly, the book offers critical reflections on the interventions of the trauma and reconciliation industries, which can be more harmful than is currently realised. It will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, anthropology and international relations.
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“Sebina Sivac-Bryant’s anthropological study focuses on the postconflict society in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, the author reconstructsthe return process of Bosniaks to their former hometown Kozarac. … Sivac-Bryant makes an important contribution to the understanding of postconflict societies. … she has succeeded in compiling a very relevant work on postconflict societies.” (Manuela Brenner, Südosteuropa, Vol. 65 (4), 2017)
“A book about not just suffering, but survival – and return, literally… It starts with one of the little-told phenomena of recent military history, that of ‘The Army of the Dispossessed’, made up mostly of soldiers who had survived the camps and Serbian ‘cleansing’, fighting to go home, and documents the challenges that followed in re-making “the biggest little city in the world.” Sebina knows this story from the inside – and her book is key to understanding Bosnia, Europe and the resilience of humankind.” (Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian journalist)
“The author offers a compelling and provocative ethnography of Muslim return, which shows how victims of ethnic cleansing, usually described as ‘passive’ and ‘helpless’, take the initiative and reclaim their livelihoods.. The book holds up a mirror to well-intentioned transitional justice, reconciliation, and psycho-social interventions initiatives which often fail to address the real issues that returnees face. It also very interestingly explores the role of online community platforms in restoring the damaged social networks of displaced communities.” (Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Regensburg, Germany)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Re-Making Kozarac
Book Subtitle: Agency, Reconciliation and Contested Return in Post-War Bosnia
Authors: Sebina Sivac-Bryant
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58838-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58837-1Published: 02 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95464-3Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58838-8Published: 13 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-2797
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 214
Number of Illustrations: 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime and Society, Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Peace Studies, Military and Defence Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence