This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three
generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic
fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly
intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and rewritten
following great socio-political change.
Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it
demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national
historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning
to past events. It argues that the dramatic and often brutal transformations that Bosnia and
Herzegovina has witnessed have led to alterations in memory politics, not to mention
disparities in the life situations faced by the different generations in present-day post-war
Mostar. This in turn has created variations in memories along generational lines, which affect
how individuals narrate and position themselves in relation to the country`s history.
This detailed and engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology,
sociology, political science, history and oral history, particularly those with an interest
in memory, post-socialist Europe and conflict studies.