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Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the creativity with which they responded to desperate circumstances.Ivana Maček, an anthropologist who grew up in the former Yugoslavia, argues that the division of Bosnians into antagonistic ethnonational groups was the result rather than the cause of the war, a view that was not only generally assumed by Americans and Western Europeans but also deliberately promoted by Serb, Croat, and Muslim nationalist politicians. Nationalist political leaders appealed to ethnoreligious loyalties and sowed mistrust between people who had previously coexisted peacefully in Sarajevo. Normality dissolved and relationships were reconstructed as individuals tried to ascertain who could be trusted.Over time, this ethnography shows, Sarajevans shifted from the shock they felt as civilians in a city under siege into a "soldier" way of thinking, siding with one group and blaming others for the war. Eventually, they became disillusioned with these simple rationales for suffering and adopted a "deserter" stance, trying to take moral responsibility for their own choices in spite of their powerless position. The coexistence of these contradictory views reflects the confusion Sarajevans felt in the midst of a chaotic war.Maček respects the subjectivity of her informants and gives Sarajevans' own words a dignity that is not always accorded the viewpoints of ordinary citizens. Combining scholarship on political violence with firsthand observation and telling insights, this book is of vital importance to people who seek to understand the dynamics of armed conflict along ethnonational lines both within and beyond Europe.

Political violence --- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- History --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Linguistics.

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Soon after they moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, this book's protagonists were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia. More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people's sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless ""Meantime."" Ethnographically investigating yearnings for ""normal lives"" in the European semi-peripher

Ethnology --- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 --- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Social conditions

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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995. --- War correspondents --- Foreign correspondents --- Journalism --- History --- History --- History --- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- History

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Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- History --- Bosna-Serai (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Serajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Serayevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Sarayevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Saragievo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Saraevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War charts the rich history of the city’s famous Holiday Inn hotel. Describing in detail the tumultuous events that took place within its walls and in its immediate environs, this book explores the opening of the building in advance of the 1984 Winter Olympics through the early 1990s when the hotel was utilized by political elites through to the siege of Sarajevo, when the hotel became the main base for foreign correspondents. Kenneth Morrison draws upon a plethora of primary and secondary sources, and includes extensive interviews with many participants in the drama that was played out within the confines of the hotel, contextualizing the case of the Holiday Inn by analyzing how hotels are utilized in times of conflict. .

History. --- Europe --- Military history. --- Civilization --- European History. --- History of Military. --- Cultural History. --- Hotels --- History --- Holiday Inns, Inc. --- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Hotels, taverns, etc. --- Inns --- Holiday Inns of America, Inc. --- Holiday Inns --- Bosna-Serai (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Serajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Serayevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Sarayevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Saragievo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Saraevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Hospitality industry --- Boardinghouses --- Taverns (Inns) --- Europe-History. --- Civilization-History. --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- Naval history --- Europe—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina : 1992-1996) --- 1900-1999 --- Bosnia and Herzegovina --- Siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina : 1992-1996) --- Bosnia and Hercegovina