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" Sarajevo and the War: "
Orr, Helen M.
Ochoa, Todd R.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1104555
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TLpq2238751731
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Ochoa, Todd R.
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Orr, Helen M.
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| Title & Author
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Sarajevo and the War:\ Orr, Helen M.Ochoa, Todd R.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2019
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2019
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Ph.D.
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245
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| Abstract
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This dissertation is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and it examines Sarajevo’s war tour industry as a social production embedded in the contemporary realities of post-conflict society. Bosnia’s war tours take international visitors to sites that commemorate the violence of the Bosnian war, including Sarajevo’s almost four-year-long siege and urbicide. The dissertation explores issues of religion and violence, the commoditization of suffering, and the global intersections of dark tourism, witnessing, and the political construction of sacred discourses. As such, the dissertation treats the tours as ritual performances important to the production of Bosnian counter-memory. The tours authorize Bosnian memories and narratives of the war in the midst of a post-conflict history that is narratively contested. They also resist broader Western narratives of the war, historically beholden to the project of Orientalism, which continue to produce the Balkans as a geopolitical entity beholden to violent, ethno-religious actors. The project further examines the epistemological and political links which tie Sarajevo’s war tour industry to the global phenomenon of dark tourism, in which sites of atrocity become open to touristic production and market-share. Drawing upon an assemblage framing, the war tours are treated as vital, material sites which both produce, and resist, their commoditization. The dissertation is attuned to the ways in which dark sites are produced as “sacred spaces,” and examines how the scholarly labeling of these sites as “sacred” further obscures the commodification of Bosnian suffering. At the same time, the dissertation uses a theory of transgression to affirm the forces of excess and profound loss at play in these touristic spaces. The dissertation treats the tours as instrumental, political acts, and frames the intimacies of post-war Bosnian life through the tours, embedding them in the city life of Sarajevo.
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Cultural anthropology
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East European Studies
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Religion
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