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

Title: Violence as a generative force : identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community / Max Bergholz.
Author: Bergholz, Max
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.

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Description

xvii, 441 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

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"--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-430) and index.

Contents

Vocabularies of community -- A world upended -- Killing and rescue -- Rebellion and revenge -- The challenge of restraint -- Forty-eight hours -- Sudden nationhood.

Call Number

JFE 17-2118

ISBN

9781501704925
1501704923

LCCN

2016025961
40026618992

OCLC

951465455

Author

Bergholz, Max, author.

Title

Violence as a generative force : identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community / Max Bergholz.

Publisher

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-430) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40026618992

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2118

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