This volume offers unique conceptual and empirical insights into ordinary lives in the violent aftermath of the Cold War. Considering Bosnia and Herzegovina as a comprehensive coordinate of larger social, political, and economic fluxes, it demonstrates why the widely used tropes of stuckedness, immobility, and frozenness associated with post-Cold War semiperipheries need to be understood in the context of excessive upheavals that mobilise or suspend modes of belonging, care, and reckoning. Bringing together emerging and leading scholars from across the social sciences with long-term research experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with scholars who have been documenting similar processes in other parts of the world, this volume develops new analytical heuristics and interventions into global post-Cold War studies. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students of Anthropology, Sociology, Human Geography, Contemporary History, and Area Studies along with those studying the history, politics, economy, and culture of semiperipheries.
Introductory Chapter of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
David Henig is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal History and Anthropology. He is the author of numerous articles on Islam, charitable economies and the ethics of giving, and postsocialism in Southeast Europe. More recently, he has been writing on war ecologies in the Anthropocene. He is the author of Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, and he co-edited Economies of Favour after Socialism, and Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy.
Jaroslav Klepal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology from Charles University. In his dissertation based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina he explored the enactments of posttraumatic stress disorder and reconsidered the approaches to this subject in medical anthropology. His researches on war veterans, the ontological politics of trauma, and medical technologies have resulted in book chapters and articles that were published in journals such as Medical Anthropology, Science as Culture, or Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
Ondřej Žíla is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University. He received his PhD in Modern World History from Charles University. His research focuses on the consequences of the transition from war to peace in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. On the basis of his long-term fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he published a monograph titled ‘You Are My Only Homeland.’ Ethno-demographic changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1945–2013 (in Czech) and he has also published numerous articles in journals such as the Political Geography, Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Refugee Studies, Nationalities Papers, and East European Politics and Society.
