RT Book
T1 Violence as a generative force: identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community
A1 Bergholz, Max
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/861341112
AB "During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy--in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves--was the culmination of a chain of local massacres that began earlier in the summer. In Violence as a Generative Force, Max Bergholz tells the story of the sudden and perplexing descent of this once peaceful multiethnic community into extreme violence. This deeply researched microhistory provides provocative insights to questions of global significance: What causes intercommunal violence? How does such violence between neighbors affect their identities and relations? Contrary to a widely held view that sees nationalism leading to violence, Bergholz reveals how the upheavals wrought by local killing actually created dramatically new perceptions of ethnicity--of oneself, supposed "brothers," and those perceived as "others." As a consequence, the violence forged new communities, new forms and configurations of power, and new practices of nationalism"--
AB Vocabularies of community -- A world upended -- Killing and rescue -- Rebellion and revenge -- The challenge of restraint -- Forty-eight hours -- Sudden nationhood
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DR1785.K85
SN 978-1-5017-0492-5
K1 Massacres : Bosnia and Herzegovina : Kulen Vakuf : History
K1 Ethnic conflict : Bosnia and Herzegovina : Kulen Vakuf : History
K1 Violence : Bosnia and Herzegovina : Kulen Vakuf : History
K1 Nationalism and collective memory : Bosnia and Herzegovina : Kulen Vakuf : History
K1 Communalism : Bosnia and Herzegovina : Kulen Vakuf : History
K1 World War, 1939-1945 : Bosnia and Herzegovina
K1 Gemeinde
K1 Ethnische Gruppe
K1 Minderheitenfrage
K1 Gewalttätigkeit
K1 Identitätsentwicklung
K1 Nationalbewusstsein
K1 Geschichte
K1 Kulen Vakuf (Bosnia and Herzegovina) : Ethnic relations
K1 Jugoslawien
K1 Kulen Vakuf : Massaker : Nationalismus : Identität : Erinnerung : Geschichte 1941