Search for dissertations about: "Bosnia and Hercegovina"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Bosnia and Hercegovina.
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1. Analyzing Competitive Victimhood : Narratives of recognition and nonrecognition in the pursuit of reconciliation
Abstract : This dissertation analyzes the narrative manifestation of competitive victimhood and its variations within reconciliation processes. Competitive victimhood (CV) emerges when opposing groups assert themselves to be the sole or primary victims of conflict or use their historical suffering to rationalize ingroup transgressions. READ MORE
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2. War within : Everyday life in Sarajevo under siege
Abstract : In this ethnography of the war in Bosnia, the author examines the ways in which thepeople of Sarajevo negotiated the meaning of normality in their everyday lives, which became dominated by the war situation and the siege of the town. The study explores the ways of dealing with everyday threat to life, ways of providing the subsistence, changes in social relations, and the role of religion and ethnic traditions in the process of constituting national identities. READ MORE