Overview
- Provides an analysis of the dynamics between official domestic and international authorities, as well as activists and a new war-created population seeking compensation
- Synthesizes various bodies of literature not only on transitional justice but also on social movements and anthropological approaches to victimhood
- Explores the political exploitation of the various frames of victimhood and the strategies used by victims
Part of the book series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (MPTJ)
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“The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina makes an excellent contribution to the existing scholarship on transitional justice and our understanding of the politics of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. Barton-Hronešová’s analysis of the financial compensation of war victims is meticulous and extremely revealing of power and responsibility in this divided and politically fragmented state. The monograph will be widely cited and read by those with an interest in the region, the politics of transitional justice, and the broader challenge of post-conflict reconstruction."
— Adam Fagan, Professor of European Politics, King’s College London, UK
"Why are the needs of some victims addressed and the needs of others ignored? Jessie Barton-Hronešová explores the landscape of victim political mobilisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and sets out in detail the political, legal, contextual, and social constraints with which victim activists are faced, and how they are addressed. In the process she reshapes the reader's view of victims: they are not objects to be deployed in political arguments or romanticised, but active participants navigating their way through a frequently hostile institutional environment. This work makes an important contribution to how we understand victims, their needs, and how some needs are or are not met. It is essential for any reader hoping to understand post-conflict environments."
— Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, University College London, UK
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Book Title: The Struggle for Redress
Book Subtitle: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Jessie Barton-Hronešová
Series Title: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51622-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51621-5Published: 06 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51624-6Published: 07 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51622-2Published: 05 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-3840
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 336
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Conflict Studies