The struggle for redress : victim capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina /

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Author / Creator:	Barton-Hronešová, Jessie, 1985- author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Description:	xxi, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Memory politics and transitional justice Memory politics and transitional justice.
Subject:	Bosnians -- Reparations. Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 1992- Bosnia and Herzegovina. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12408831

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ISBN:	3030516210 9783030516215
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	This book explores pathways to redress for main groups of victims/survivors of the 1992-5 Bosnian war --families of missing persons, victims of torture, survivors of sexual violence, and victims suffering physical disabilities and harm. The author traces the history of redress-making for each of these groups and shows how differently they have been treated by Bosnian authorities at the state and subnational level. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, thousands of war victims have had to suffer re-traumatising ordeals in order to secure partial redress for their suffering during 1992-1995 and after. While some, such as victims of sexual violence, have been legally recognised and offered financial and service-based compensation, others, such as victims of torture, have been recognized only recently with a clear geographical limitation. The main aim of the book is to explore the politics behind recognizing victimhood and awarding redress in a country that has been divided by instrumentalized identity cleavages, widespread patronage and debilitating war legacies. It shows how war victims/survivors navigate such fragmented and challenging public landscape in order to secure their rights. Jessie Barton-Hronešová is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department for International Development, University of Oxford, UK.
Other form:	Electronic version: Barton-Hronešová, Jessie. Struggle for redress. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 9783030516222

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Victim Capital for Recognition and Redress
Chapter 3. The Bosnian Conflict, its Aftermath and Victims Demands
Chapter 4. 'Why is my leg worth less? Disability and the Loss of Life of Military and Civilian War Victims
Chapter 5. Graves and Redress: Families of the Missing Persons and the 'Srebrenica Effect
Chapter 6. Between Recognition and Oblivion: Victims of Sexual Violence and Torture
Chapter 7. Victimhood, Recognition and Redress from a Comparative Perspective.

The struggle for redress : victim capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina /

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