Format:
1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350285859
Content:
"Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, and Serbia to shine fresh light on cemetery culture in 20th-century Europe. More specifically, Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia investigates how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia created its own communities of the dead by implementing cemetery policies which reinforced their ideals of secularism, pluralism, brotherhood, and unity. However, in doing so the communist regime left the previous system of ethno-religious segregation in place and further isolated Catholics, Orthodox, Muslims and Jews who continued to be buried in separate locations. This in turn further politicized burial rites and exacerbated tensions between different ethno-religious communities. As a result, by the time Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s, dead bodies and cemeteries had become a concerted weapon of war in the ongoing ethnic conflict. Ultimately, then, this timely study reveals for the first time the extent to which the communist regime not only failed to created their own communities of the dead but also further divided and alienated living communities in Yugoslavia."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Part I. Foundations Introduction. 1. Burial Cultures of the Former Yugoslavia ; 2. Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina in Socialist Yugoslavia -- Part II. Public and Private Forms of Commemoration in Socialist Yugoslavia. 3. The Secularization of Cemeteries ; 4. Burial Rites ; 5. Grave Markers -- Part III. Socialist Necropolitics. 6. The Politicization of Cemeteries: Mass Graves and Grave Desecrations ; 7. Conclusion and Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350285842
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350285866
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350285828
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350285866
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350285859
