Hariz Halilovich, social anthropologist and writer, is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne. He has been recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including best short story at the Australian National Writing Awards (2001).

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Acknowledgements

A note on pronunciation of some specific Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian characters

Glossary of non-English words

List of selected abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Journey through Bosnian Wartorn Communities

• Writing Displacement of Bosnians
• Practical Challenges
• Theoretical Challenges
• Methodological Challenges
• Reflexive Ethnography
• Ethics and Politics of the Research

Chapter 2. Klotjevac: Forced Displacement and 'Ethnic Cleansing' in an Eastern Bosnian Village

• Reunion
• When You Forget July
• Journey to a Village
• Once there was a Community
• Beliefs and Rituals
• Taboos
• In sljivovica Veritas
• Human Geography of the Place
• Annihilation of a Community
• The '(UN)Safe Area' Srebrenica
• Recognising Genocide
• Back to the Present
• Mapping displacement
• Conclusion

Chapter 3. Beyond the Sadness: Narratives of Displacement, Refuge and Homecomings among Bosnian Refugees in Austria

• Debating Displacement
• Narrating Displacement
• Sejo in Vienna
• Edita's 'Wonderland' in Vienna
  Mapping Edita's Lost Home
  Less than 'Six Degrees of Separation' Between Edita and Ibro
• Prijedor Region-Blueprint for 'Ethnic Cleansing'
• Massacre in Hegici
• Massacre in Brdo
• Edita, Ibro and Sejo in Austria
• Edita's Homecoming
• Torn Between Home and Exile, Past and Present

Chapter 4. (Dis)Placing Memories: Monuments, Memorials and Commemorations in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

• The Funeral at Hegici
• Omarska
• Keraterm and Trnopolje
• Srebrenica/Potocari Commemorations
• Mostar Carrying its Cross
• Sarajevo Remembers

Chapter 5. Reframing Identity in Places of Pain: A Photographic Essay of Displacement and Memory

Chapter 6. Trans-local Diasporic Communities in the Age of Transnationalism: Bosnians in Australia, Europe and the US

• Debating Diaspora
• Emergence of the Bosnian Diaspora
• One Family, Two Languages, Many Cultures
• 'German Bosnians' in Sweden and 'Aussie Bosnians' from Germany
• The Trans-local Within the Transnational
• Brcko in Melbourne
• Strengthening Unity through Inter-marriage
• Other Forms of Trans-localism in Action
• Formation of Trans-local Diasporic Communities
• Conclusion

Chapter 7. Measuring the Pain of Others: Gendered Displacement, Memory and Identity

• Re-counting the Displaced
• 'Not in My Front Yard!': The Case of Fata Orlovic
• Ethnic Engineering
• Uncounted 'Collateral Damage': The Case of Aunty Edina
• (Mis)using IDPs
• RefugeeWomen in Diaspora
• Mothers' Children

Chapter 8. Concluding the Journey through Bosnian War-torn Communities

• Bosnian Vikings
• Bosnian Midwesterners
• Vienna Blues
• Unearthing the Missing in Bosnia
• From St Louis to St Albans: All Roads Lead to Hanna's Café

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