Social Aspects of Memory

Social Aspects of Memory presents a compelling study of how ordinary people remember war events. Focusing on the divided city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, the book adopts a unique approach, looking at how perpetrators and victims (as well as new generations) manage in the aftermath.

Alma Jeftic is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, President of the Association of Psychologists in Federation Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sarajevo Subsidiary, and a Governing Board member of the Research Network on Transnational memory and Identity in Europe (Council for European Studies at Columbia University).

Preface Chapter 1 - Sarajevo for Beginners: History, Culture and Politics from the Ottoman Empire to Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina Chapter 2 - The Siege of Sarajevo between "Mnene" and "Anamnesis" Chapter 3 - Sins of Memory: Terror of Remembrance and Terror of Forgetting Chapter 4 - Memory and Remembrance in Divided Bosnia-Herzegovina between a "labour in vain" and perspective taking