Violence as a generative force : identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community

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Violence as a generative force : identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community

Title remainder

identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community

Statement of responsibility

Max Bergholz

Creator

• Bergholz, Max

Author

• Bergholz, Max

Subject

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf
• Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf
• Bosnien-Herzegowina
• Bosnien-Herzegowina
• Communalism
• Communalism
• Communalism -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kulen Vakuf -- History
• Ethnic conflict
• Ethnic conflict
• Ethnic conflict -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kulen Vakuf -- History
• Ethnic relations
• Ethnic relations
• Ethnizität
• Ethnizität
• History
• History
• Kulen Vakuf (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Ethnic relations
• Massacres
• Massacres
• Massacres -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kulen Vakuf -- History
• Massaker
• Massaker
• Nationalism and collective memory
• Nationalism and collective memory
• Nationalism and collective memory -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kulen Vakuf -- History
• Nationalismus
• Nationalismus
• Violence
• Violence
• Violence -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kulen Vakuf -- History
• Weltkrieg
• Weltkrieg
• 1939-1945
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
• World War (1939-1945)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Assigning source

Publisher's Web site

Cataloging source

NIC/DLC

Dewey number

940.53/49742

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DR1785.K85

LC item number

B47 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography