Intergenerational Transmission of War Memories: The Case of Families in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian Diaspora in Europe and North America

• In Event: Legacies of Diversity in a Post-Multi-Ethnic Space II: Between Memory and Practice

Abstract

This article stems from research on first- and second-generation Bosnians living in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and diasporic spaces in the EU and the United States. Through cross-generational lenses, this project have been exploring how modes of narratives and memories of siege, being
translated, transmitted, transformed, and reworked and how families are practicing their war memories in the homeland and host land. This study investigates the intersection of urban linkages and collective memories of resistance among Sarajevo citizens and their descendants.

Author

• Emina Zoletic, U of Warsaw (Poland)