Mass Graves, Stagnating Identification, and Violence: A Case Study in the Local Sources of "The War" in Bosnia Hercegovina

Bax, Mart

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“…This is just one conceptual strand within a complex cultural repertoire that offers other constructions of identity and solidarity, but it is used quite un-self-consciously. Clan solidarities are also significant in politics and business, and the remarkable success of Montenegrins in Yugoslav and Serbian political life may be linked to certain clans' support for Tito's Partisans contributing to members' rise within party ranks and subsequent brokerage of access to power to kin and conationals (see Bax 1997 for a Herzegovinian instance of this).…”

Section: Kinship and Faith In Yugoslav Orthodoxymentioning

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Montenegro versus Crna Gora

Forbess

2013

Focaal

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This article examines how hero-ancestor-saints came to be drawn into contestations over heritage, economic assets, and ritual between two rival groups of Orthodox clerics and their political and entrepreneurial backers. After Montenegro's secession from Serbia (2006), pro-and anti-Serbian factions of the population have been mobilized under the banners of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and of the recently formed Montenegrin Orthodox Church (MOC). As spheres of authority are being carved out in the new polity, competing political and sacred genealogies are used to articulate the nation's descent through earlier state projects in the region. This article examines how Orthodox notions of charisma and leadership intersect with the heroic traditions of highland clans and contemporary state processes to create specific forms of authority inscribed in divine kinship genealogies.

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Section: Kinship and Faith In Yugoslav Orthodoxymentioning

confidence: 96%

Montenegro versus Crna Gora

Forbess

2013

Focaal

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“…Even in agencydriven analyses of the Yugoslav wars (Gagnon 2004(Gagnon , 1994 In the former Yugoslavia itself, anthropological studies have provided crucial insights often missed by more theory-driven approaches. For example, anthropologists have analysed the latent religious trends in pre-war Bosnia (Sorabji 1989), the local religious practices and their interwoven dimensions of national identification (Bringa 1995), the instability of dominant national/ethnic categorisations (Bringa 1993(Bringa , 1995Sorabji 1993Sorabji , 1995, the politics of symbol and its role in the 1990s wars (Č olovic´2002), the symbolic revival of traumatic historical events (Denich 1994;Hayden 1994), the constitutive character of ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia (Bowman 2003), the interplay between localised networks and violent conflict (Bax 1997(Bax , 2000, and the everyday experience of civilians in wartime (Ma cek 2000). Similar trends continued in important studies of post-conflict Bosnia (Bougarel et al 2007;Kolind 2008).…”

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The ‘Paradox’ of Tuzla City: Explaining Non-nationalist Local Politics during the Bosnian War

Armakolas

2011

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…No caso do conflito na Bósnia, isso complicou a análise por ter tornado difícil conceituar a interação social conflituosa entre membros desses supostos grupos como nada além de "étnica". No entanto, tem sido amplamente demonstrado que muitos casos de violência aparentemente étnica na Bósnia foram, após uma análise mais aprofundada, vinganças locais ou combates entre as redes criminosas (BAX, 1997;MUELLER, 2000;ANDREAS, 2004). Assim, identidades de grupo reificadas na pesquisa como "conflitos étnicos" criam um quadro analítico como "dado" (a base étnica do conflito), enquanto na verdade se trata de uma questão empírica a ser investigada.…”

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Repensar a Escala Como Uma Categoria Geográfica: Da Análise Para a Prática

Moore

2018

GEOgraphia

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ARTIGOSResumo: Nas últimas duas décadas, os geógrafos humanos teorizaram fortemente a escala, e intensificaram as afirmações de que ela é um elemento fundamental da teoria geográfica. No entanto, concomitante a este movimento há uma preocupação crescente de que a escala tenha se tornado um conceito pesado, carregado com significados múltiplos, contraditórios e problemáticos. Eu partilho dessa inquietação e argumento que um debate semelhante sobre a utilidade da "identidade" como uma categoria conceitual nas ciências sociais oferece insights instrutivos. Em paralelo às críticas recentes de categorias de identidade como nação e raça, eu encaro a confusão conceitual em torno da escala -e da política de escala -, em parte, como consequência do fracasso em se distinguir claramente entre a escala como uma categoria de prática e uma categoria de análise. Ao adotar a escala como uma categoria de análise, os geógrafos tendem a reificá-la como uma entidade ontológica fundamental; assim, trata-se uma categoria social empregada na prática da política socioespacial como um instrumento teórico central. Defendo que esta manobra analítica não é nem útil nem necessária, e sintetizo suas consequências nas análises sobre política de escala. Por fim, esboço os contornos de um programa de pesquisa para as políticas de escala que leva essa injunção a sério -tanto em termos de como teorizar a escala como uma categoria da prática quanto no que diz respeito ao foco da pesquisa em política de escala. Palavras-chave: categorias, epistemologia, prática, processo, escala. RETHINKING SCALE AS A GEOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY: FROM ANALYSIS TO PRACTICE Abstract:In the past two decades human geographers have intensely theorized scale, and extended claims that it is a foundational element of geographic theory. Yet attendant with this move has been a growing concern that scale has become an unwieldy concept laden with multiple, contradictory and problematic meanings. I share that concern, and argue that a similar debate about the usefulness of 'identity' as a conceptual category in social science offers instructive insights. Paralleling recent critiques of identity categories such as nation and race, I view the conceptual confusion surrounding scale -and scale politics -as, in part, the consequence of failing to make a clear distinction between scale as a category of practice and category of analysis. In adopting scale as a category of analysis geographers tend to reify it as a fundamental ontological entity, thereby treating a social category employed in the practice of sociospatial politics as a central theoretical tool. I argue that this analytical manoeuvre is neither helpful nor necessary, and outline its consequences in analyses of the politics of scale. Finally, I sketch the altered contours of a research programme for the politics of scale if we take this injunction seriously -both in terms of how we theorize scale as a category of practice and what becomes the focus of scale politics research.REPENSAR LA ESCALA COMO UNA CATEGORÍA GEOGRÁFICA: DEL ...

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Mass Graves, Stagnating Identification, and Violence: A Case Study in the Local Sources of "The War" in Bosnia Hercegovina

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

Montenegro versus Crna Gora

Montenegro versus Crna Gora

The ‘Paradox’ of Tuzla City: Explaining Non-nationalist Local Politics during the Bosnian War

Repensar a Escala Como Uma Categoria Geográfica: Da Análise Para a Prática

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