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Troubled locations: Return, the life course and transformations of ‘home’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina

 This article confronts the nationalist and foreign interventionist discourses on ‘home’ in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina with the everyday experiences of a category of persons who are perceived as the ultimate embodiment of the promised homecoming encapsulated in sedentarism: minority returnees. It ethnographically traces the initially mirroring movements of two households and their differential ways to overcome … Continue reading Troubled locations: Return, the life course and transformations of ‘home’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina →

Of wolves and men: Postwar reconciliation and the gender of inter-national encounters.

This article confronts the grammar of liberal reconciliation discourses with the gendered practices of post-war encounters. After violence that is considered national, meetings between people of different nationalities, and the reconciliation of which they are seen to be a vanguard, tend to be considered as morally good in and of themselves. This article subjects such liberal reconciliation … Continue reading Of wolves and men: Postwar reconciliation and the gender of inter-national encounters. →