Jessie Barton Hronešová
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie Barton Hronešová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie Barton |
| FAMILY NAME | Hronešová |
| SIGNATURE | HRONEŠOVÁ J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6727-4207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The slow transformation of the collectivist education of child refugees from Greece in socialist Czechoslovakia
Using a Slow Memory framework, which foregrounds sustained, reflective engagement with the past, this article examines the evolving institutional care provided to child refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) in socialist Czechoslovakia. Rather than interpreting their experiences primarily through trauma or rupture, the analysis focuses on the long-term everyday realities of life in childcare institutions, recalling both supportive and cons…
Locating agency in normative change
Existing accounts of normative change in international politics place undue focus on powerful actors as norm entrepreneurs and the organizational platforms that facilitate their advocacy. This can obscure the ideational innovation that precedes advocacy, biasing analysis towards structural incentives, rather than agency. To rebalance such accounts, we offer an agentive model of ideational innovation that treats norm entrepreneurship as a process,…
Bohuslav Ečer, the UN War Crimes Commission, and the Intellectual History of the Nuremberg Charter
Using previously uncited archival evidence from the US, the UK, and Czechia, we highlight Bohuslav Ečer’s significant impact on the Charter of the International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg from 1945 to 1946. A politically motivated jurist from Czechoslovakia, Ečer proved a key innovator in international criminal law, pushing for bold new precedents at Nuremberg. We highlight multiple legal arguments that Ečer innovated and championed. The…
Victimhood nationalism
Why and how victimhood matters? Between strategic ontological narratives and intersectional injustice in contemporary Serbia
In Serbia, political elites have long propagated narratives of historical injustice and foreign hostility, strategically mobilizing victimhood as a framework for national identity. Promoted by the ruling regime to ostensibly restore pride, these narratives serve to justify foreign policy and obscure domestic dysfunction. But why and how do these narratives resonate? Drawing on original focus group data with university students, this article shows…
Strategically Hijacking Victimhood
This article introduces the concept of “hijacked victimhood” as a form of strategically leveraging victimhood narratives. It is a subset of strategic victimhood, which is a relatively common communicative strategy whereby groups claim victimhood status in contests over power and legitimacy. Political leaders who use the strategy of hijacked victimhood present dominant groups as in danger, as current or future victims, and in need of protection (e…
The 2021 Memory Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Reconciliation or Polarization
In July 2021, the outgoing international High Representative (HR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) imposed a set of amendments to the Criminal Code of BiH, which outlawed the denial of genocide and relativization of war crimes. The decision was largely welcomed by Bosniaks but met with animosity to many in the Bosnian Serb entity and sparked one of the worst crises in post-war BiH. In this article, we demonstrate that because of the manner of the …
‘The law comes first?’
What explains the variety in victim-centric state policies of redress in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)? Rather than analyzing BiH as a special case of a divided ethno-national state, this article studies domestic victimhood politics as a phenomenon with wider comparative applications for post-conflict contexts. Redress, a set of policies that legally recognize victims/survivors of wartime atrocities and provide them with in-kind and financ…
From the ashes of history
Journal Article From the ashes of history: collective trauma and the making of international politics Get access From the ashes of history: collective trauma and the making of international politics. By Adam B Lerner. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 272pp. Pb.:£19.99. Isbn978 0 19762 358 9. Available as e-book. Jessie Barton Hronešová Jessie Barton Hronešová University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA Search for other works by this aut…
The International Administration of Territory as an Interim Peace
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reached a new, critical stage, with a confluence of developments that could lead to a number of possible scenarios discussed in the press and by think tanks.1 Cu
The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe
Narratives of wartime suffering, communist evils, and maltreatment by the ‘West’ have started featuring prominently in the political discourse across eastern Europe in the past decade and half. Permeating the public sphere, such narratives imply complex victimhood and often gain a hegemonic status. Why have such victimhood narratives become so pervasive? And what has been their purpose across eastern Europe? This interdisciplinary article provide…
Ethnopopulist denial and crime relativisation in Bosnian Republika Srpska
Ethnopopulist denial has become an essential part of the political repertoire of the political leadership of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has turned into an effective strategy to preserve power, appeal to voters and disparage internal opposition and international institutions. This article traces the origins of denial and relativisation of the past, outlining the main mechanisms, discourses and processes of leveraging denia…
Portrayals of Women on Ethno-Nationalist and Radical Islamic Websites in Bosnia And Herzegovina
This article presents an original analysis of portrayals of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on websites with radical and extremist content. We analyze and discuss key online narratives about women and their societal roles from 100 sampled online articles published on ten websites that primarily propagate right-wing, nationalist and Salafist thinking. The article shows that while Salafist websites focus on didactic material about how women a…
The Struggle for Redress
Bones and Recognition
A growing trend in post-war transitional justice posits that structural conditions explain why only some post-war countries award material assistance to survivors of war atrocities. While these explanations provide critical insights into the processes behind compensation adoption across post-war states, they do not explain the great variance in which victims obtain compensation within post-war countries. Using the case of missing persons in Bosni…
Might Makes Right
This article explores the patterns of distribution of material reparations (compensation) for victims and veterans in post-1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing on bottom-up approaches to reparative justice and critical peacebuilding, it explains the existing material reparation schemes in Bosnia as outcomes of the post-war transition and interests of the main transitional actors. It first explores the different approaches to war-related compensat…
Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina
Since the February 2014 protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina, much has been written about the short-lived and dramatic public uproar in the street of Bosnian towns and cities. Many of these works hav
Strategically Hijacking Victimhood
This article introduces the concept of “hijacked victimhood” as a form of strategically leveraging victimhood narratives. It is a subset of strategic victimhood, which is a relatively common communicative strategy whereby groups claim victimhood status in contests over power and legitimacy. Political leaders who use the strategy of hijacked victimhood present dominant groups as in danger, as current or future victims, and in need of protection (e…
Ethnopopulist denial and crime relativisation in Bosnian Republika Srpska
Ethnopopulist denial has become an essential part of the political repertoire of the political leadership of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has turned into an effective strategy to preserve power, appeal to voters and disparage internal opposition and international institutions. This article traces the origins of denial and relativisation of the past, outlining the main mechanisms, discourses and processes of leveraging denia…
Might Makes Right
This article explores the patterns of distribution of material reparations (compensation) for victims and veterans in post-1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing on bottom-up approaches to reparative justice and critical peacebuilding, it explains the existing material reparation schemes in Bosnia as outcomes of the post-war transition and interests of the main transitional actors. It first explores the different approaches to war-related compensat…
The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe
Narratives of wartime suffering, communist evils, and maltreatment by the ‘West’ have started featuring prominently in the political discourse across eastern Europe in the past decade and half. Permeating the public sphere, such narratives imply complex victimhood and often gain a hegemonic status. Why have such victimhood narratives become so pervasive? And what has been their purpose across eastern Europe? This interdisciplinary article provide…
The 2021 Memory Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Reconciliation or Polarization
In July 2021, the outgoing international High Representative (HR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) imposed a set of amendments to the Criminal Code of BiH, which outlawed the denial of genocide and relativization of war crimes. The decision was largely welcomed by Bosniaks but met with animosity to many in the Bosnian Serb entity and sparked one of the worst crises in post-war BiH. In this article, we demonstrate that because of the manner of the …
Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina
Since the February 2014 protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina, much has been written about the short-lived and dramatic public uproar in the street of Bosnian towns and cities. Many of these works hav
Might Makes Right
This article explores the patterns of distribution of material reparations (compensation) for victims and veterans in post-1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing on bottom-up approaches to reparative justice and critical peacebuilding, it explains the existing material reparation schemes in Bosnia as outcomes of the post-war transition and interests of the main transitional actors. It first explores the different approaches to war-related compensat…
Bones and Recognition
A growing trend in post-war transitional justice posits that structural conditions explain why only some post-war countries award material assistance to survivors of war atrocities. While these explanations provide critical insights into the processes behind compensation adoption across post-war states, they do not explain the great variance in which victims obtain compensation within post-war countries. Using the case of missing persons in Bosni…
The Struggle for Redress
Portrayals of Women on Ethno-Nationalist and Radical Islamic Websites in Bosnia And Herzegovina
This article presents an original analysis of portrayals of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on websites with radical and extremist content. We analyze and discuss key online narratives about women and their societal roles from 100 sampled online articles published on ten websites that primarily propagate right-wing, nationalist and Salafist thinking. The article shows that while Salafist websites focus on didactic material about how women a…
The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe
Narratives of wartime suffering, communist evils, and maltreatment by the ‘West’ have started featuring prominently in the political discourse across eastern Europe in the past decade and half. Permeating the public sphere, such narratives imply complex victimhood and often gain a hegemonic status. Why have such victimhood narratives become so pervasive? And what has been their purpose across eastern Europe? This interdisciplinary article provide…
Ethnopopulist denial and crime relativisation in Bosnian Republika Srpska
Ethnopopulist denial has become an essential part of the political repertoire of the political leadership of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has turned into an effective strategy to preserve power, appeal to voters and disparage internal opposition and international institutions. This article traces the origins of denial and relativisation of the past, outlining the main mechanisms, discourses and processes of leveraging denia…
‘The law comes first?’
What explains the variety in victim-centric state policies of redress in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)? Rather than analyzing BiH as a special case of a divided ethno-national state, this article studies domestic victimhood politics as a phenomenon with wider comparative applications for post-conflict contexts. Redress, a set of policies that legally recognize victims/survivors of wartime atrocities and provide them with in-kind and financ…
From the ashes of history
Journal Article From the ashes of history: collective trauma and the making of international politics Get access From the ashes of history: collective trauma and the making of international politics. By Adam B Lerner. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 272pp. Pb.:£19.99. Isbn978 0 19762 358 9. Available as e-book. Jessie Barton Hronešová Jessie Barton Hronešová University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA Search for other works by this aut…
The International Administration of Territory as an Interim Peace
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reached a new, critical stage, with a confluence of developments that could lead to a number of possible scenarios discussed in the press and by think tanks.1 Cu
Strategically Hijacking Victimhood
This article introduces the concept of “hijacked victimhood” as a form of strategically leveraging victimhood narratives. It is a subset of strategic victimhood, which is a relatively common communicative strategy whereby groups claim victimhood status in contests over power and legitimacy. Political leaders who use the strategy of hijacked victimhood present dominant groups as in danger, as current or future victims, and in need of protection (e…
The 2021 Memory Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Reconciliation or Polarization
In July 2021, the outgoing international High Representative (HR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) imposed a set of amendments to the Criminal Code of BiH, which outlawed the denial of genocide and relativization of war crimes. The decision was largely welcomed by Bosniaks but met with animosity to many in the Bosnian Serb entity and sparked one of the worst crises in post-war BiH. In this article, we demonstrate that because of the manner of the …
Bohuslav Ečer, the UN War Crimes Commission, and the Intellectual History of the Nuremberg Charter
Using previously uncited archival evidence from the US, the UK, and Czechia, we highlight Bohuslav Ečer’s significant impact on the Charter of the International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg from 1945 to 1946. A politically motivated jurist from Czechoslovakia, Ečer proved a key innovator in international criminal law, pushing for bold new precedents at Nuremberg. We highlight multiple legal arguments that Ečer innovated and championed. The…
Victimhood nationalism
Why and how victimhood matters? Between strategic ontological narratives and intersectional injustice in contemporary Serbia
In Serbia, political elites have long propagated narratives of historical injustice and foreign hostility, strategically mobilizing victimhood as a framework for national identity. Promoted by the ruling regime to ostensibly restore pride, these narratives serve to justify foreign policy and obscure domestic dysfunction. But why and how do these narratives resonate? Drawing on original focus group data with university students, this article shows…
The slow transformation of the collectivist education of child refugees from Greece in socialist Czechoslovakia
Using a Slow Memory framework, which foregrounds sustained, reflective engagement with the past, this article examines the evolving institutional care provided to child refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) in socialist Czechoslovakia. Rather than interpreting their experiences primarily through trauma or rupture, the analysis focuses on the long-term everyday realities of life in childcare institutions, recalling both supportive and cons…
Locating agency in normative change
Existing accounts of normative change in international politics place undue focus on powerful actors as norm entrepreneurs and the organizational platforms that facilitate their advocacy. This can obscure the ideational innovation that precedes advocacy, biasing analysis towards structural incentives, rather than agency. To rebalance such accounts, we offer an agentive model of ideational innovation that treats norm entrepreneurship as a process,…
Law (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Bosnian (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 works)