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Author Bergholz, Max

Title Violence as a Generative Force
Published Cornell University Press, 2016

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Contents Vocabularies of community -- A world upended -- Killing and rescue -- Rebellion and revenge -- The challenge of restraint -- Forty-eight hours -- Sudden nationhood
Summary "During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy--in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves--was the culmination of a chain of local massacres that began earlier in the summer. In Violence as a Generative Force, Max Bergholz tells the story of the sudden and perplexing descent of this once peaceful multiethnic community into extreme violence. This deeply researched microhistory provides provocative insights to questions of global significance: What causes intercommunal violence? How does such violence between neighbors affect their identities and relations? Contrary to a widely held view that sees nationalism leading to violence, Bergholz reveals how the upheavals wrought by local killing actually created dramatically new perceptions of ethnicity--of oneself, supposed "brothers," and those perceived as "others." As a consequence, the violence forged new communities, new forms and configurations of power, and new practices of nationalism"-- Publisher's Web site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Massacres -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf -- History
Ethnic conflict -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf -- History
Violence -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf -- History
Nationalism and collective memory -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf -- History
Communalism -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf -- History
World War, 1939-1945 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
Communalism
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic relations
Massacres
Nationalism and collective memory
Violence
SUBJECT Kulen Vakuf -- Ethnic relations
Subject Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kulen Vakuf
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1501705881
9781501705885