Media memory activism in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina

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ID6442262
AuthorsVéronique Labonté (0000-0003-2216-2759, Université Laval, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume18
Issue4
Pages798-814
Publication date2024-09-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980241270857
OpenAlexW4402948570
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited60

Taking Bosnia-Herzegovina as a case study, this article examines how memory activists, acting at the meso-level, use digital media to implement various counter-memory strategies in relation to the war of 1992–1995. A variety of practices at the margins of official historical discourses, which are still dominated by victimization and hatred, are examined and examples from both the literature and original empirical data are used to show how, in an extremely tense political climate, memory activists can use diverse strategies and tools to allow new representations of the past to circulate, bringing about mnemonic change. I suggest that memory activists in BiH, although operating in a public sphere governed by ethnonationalist divisions and political parallelism, use digital media as an arena, space, or repository for counter-memory narratives. Supported by thematic analysis, this interdisciplinary research paper responds to a need for contemporary empirical research on media memory activism and opens new perspectives for future interdisciplinary studies of these issues in other divided societies

Bosnia herzegovina · Collective memory · Criminology · Ethnology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Peacebuilding and International Security

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