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Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Karčić shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims.Torture, Humiliate, Kill develops the author's collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This collective traumatization consisted of excessive use of torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, and killing. The physical and psychological suffering imposed by these methods were seen as a quick and efficient means to establish the Serb "living space." Karčić argues that this trauma was deliberately intended to deter non-Serbs from ever returning to their pre-war homes. The book centers on multiple examples of experiences at concentration camps in four towns operated by Bosnian Serbs during the war: Prijedor, Bijeljina, Višegrad, and Bileća. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Karčić demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide.

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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.

Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Didactics of the arts --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- History as a science --- historiografie --- sociologie --- cultuur --- sociale wetenschappen --- culturele antropologie --- vrede --- internationale betrekkingen --- Bosnia and Herzegovina --- Anthropology. --- Historiography. --- Sociology. --- Peace. --- International relations. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Historiography and Method. --- Sociology, general. --- Peace Studies. --- International Relations. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Human beings --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Since 1992 --- Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Bosnia and Herzegovina. --- Bosna i Hercegovina --- Social conditions. --- Bosnia and Hercegovina --- Bhoisnia-Heirseagaivéin --- BiH --- Bosenia me Hesegowina --- Bosmudin boln Khert͡segudin Orn --- Bosna --- Bosna a Hercegovina --- Bosna a Hertsegofina --- Bosna agus Heartsagobhana --- Bosna dóó Hetsog Bikéyah --- Bosna i Herzegovina --- Bosna i Khert͡segovina --- Bosna kap Hercegovina --- Bosna shi Hertsegovina --- Bosna ve Hersek --- Bosni æmæ Gert͡segovinæ --- Bosnia --- Bosnia & Herzegovina --- Bosnia a Hercegovina --- Bosnia as Herzegovina --- Bosnia dan Herzegovina --- Bosnia è Erzegovina --- Bosnia e Hercegovina --- Bosnia e Herzegovina --- Bosnia ed Erzegovina --- Bósnia Ercegovina --- Bosnia-Erzegovina --- Bosnia-ha-Herzegovina --- Bosnia-Hercegovina --- Bosnía-Hersegóvína --- Bosnia-Herzegovina --- Bòsnia i Hercegovina --- Bosnia ja Hertsegoviina --- Bosnia na Herzegovina --- Bosnía og Hersegóvína --- Bosnia ug Herzegovina --- Bosnia y Herzegovina --- Bosnie-et-Herzégovine --- Bosnie-Hèrzègovena --- Bosnie-Herzégovine --- Bosnië-Herzegowina --- Bosnien-Hercegovina --- Bosnien-Herzegowina --- Bosnien und die Hercegovina --- Bosnien und Herzegowina --- Bosnīi͡a-Gert͡segovina --- Bosnii͡a i Hertsahavina --- Bosnio kaj Hercegovino --- Bosniska a Hercegowina --- Bosniska-Hercegowinska --- Bosniya hem Herțegovina --- Bosniya vä Herseqovina --- Bosniyah ṿe-Hertsegovinah --- Bosnje --- Bosnujo kaj Hercegovino --- Bosnya asin Hersegobina --- Bosnya asin Hersegovina --- Būsnah wa-al-Harsak --- Būsnah wa-al-Hirsik --- Narodna Republika Bosna i Hercegovina --- NR BiH --- People's Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina --- Pô-sṳ-nì-â lâu Het-set-kô-vì-n --- Poblacht na Boisnia-Heirseagaivéine --- Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina --- Republik Bosnia dan Herzegovina --- Republika Bosna a Hercegovina --- Republika Bosna i Hercegovina --- Republika Bosne i Hercegovine --- République de Bosnie-Herzégovine --- S.R.B. i H. --- Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina --- Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina --- SRBiH --- Vonia ha Hesegovina --- Vosnia kai Erzegovin --- Bosnīi︠a︡-Gert︠s︡egovina --- Босна и Херцеговина --- بوسنة والهرسك --- Боснія і Герцагавіна --- Bosnii︠a︡ i Hertsahavina --- Bosna i Khert︠s︡egovina --- Βοσνία και Ερζεγοβίνη --- Vosnia kai Erzegovinē --- Pô-sṳ-nì-â lâu Het-set-kô-vì-ná --- Босмудин болн Херцегудин Орн --- Bosmudin boln Khert︠s︡egudin Orn --- Босни æмæ Герцеговинæ --- Bosni æmæ Gert︠s︡egovinæ --- בוסניה והרצגובינה --- Primitive societies --- People's Republic Bosnia and Hercegovina --- NRBIH --- Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine --- FBiH --- RBiH --- Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina --- SRBIH --- Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina --- NRBiH --- Bosnier --- Herzegowiner --- Bosnien --- Herzegowina --- memory --- collective memory --- generation --- life course --- Mostar --- memory politics --- Yugoslavia --- narrative --- ethnography --- anthropology --- history --- nostalgia --- Erinnerung --- kollektive Erinnerung --- Generation --- Bosnien und Herzegovina --- Erinnerungspolitik --- Jugoslawien --- Narrativ --- Lebensabschnitt --- Ethnographie --- Anthropologie --- Geschichte --- Nostalgie --- Croats --- Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina --- Serbs --- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia --- World War II