To Know Where He Lies
Sarah Wagner
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. To Know Where He Lies provides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society—for families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, the Bosnian political leadership (including Serb and Muslim), and international aims of social repair—probing the meaning of absence itself.
Kundenbewertungen
bosnian muslim, bosnian war, safe area, political leadership, armed conflict, herzegovina, srebrenica, unmarked mass graves, bosnia, europe, memory, accountability, bosniak, islam, potocari, postwar srebrenica, social repair, genocide, genetic technology, meaning of absence, violence, technology of repair, socialist federal republic of yugoslavia, postwar bosnian society, imagination, breakup of yugoslavia, personalized loss, identification, ethnicity cleansing, science