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Landscape, Memory, and the Shifting Regional Geographies of Northwest Bosnia-Herzegovina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Writing and arguing with older discourses that have informed the subdiscipline of regional geography and setting them against new ways of conceiving of the region, this article considers the northwest of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a site that calls for a ...
Alcalay A.   +37 more
core   +1 more source

Dark events: commemoration and collective memory in the former Yugoslavia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper develops a new understanding of the relative darkness of commemorative events that are linked to tragedy and suffering, by using examples of the many such events that take place within the countries of the former state of Yugoslavia.
Kennell, James   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

‘ … everything creaks, because of water … ’: nature in the Jasenovac concentration camp

open access: yesHolocaust Studies
The Jasenovac concentration camp (1941-1945) holds a special place on the post-Yugoslav Holocaust map. The aim of the article is to analyze (1) the role of natural conditions in influencing the selection and ongoing operation of the camp; (2) how the authorities managed the post-camp landscape after the war, as well as the current presence of nature at
Giergiel, Sabina, Taczyńska, Katarzyna
openaire   +2 more sources

The Europeanization of Holocaust memory and Eastern Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Czerpiąc z idei rozwijanych w studiach nad pamięcią kulturową i społeczną oraz w teorii europeizacji, artykuł analizuje europeizację pamięci o Holokauście rozumianą jako proces konstrukcji, instytucjonalizacji i dyfuzji przekonań dotyczących Zagłady oraz
Kucia, Marek
core   +1 more source

“Antigone’s Stance amongst Slovenia’s Undead.” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Memorialization in the form of the architectural statue can suggest that our stance towards the past is concrete while memorials in the form of repeated social activity represent reconciliation with the past as a continual process.
Aumiller, Rachel
core   +2 more sources

Postcard from Jasenovac Concentration Camp [PDF]

open access: yes, 1942
Front: A white postcard with black printed postcard lines and text. Includes writing in pencil and several green hand stamps.Back: Pencil writing on black printed lines. Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A card from the Jasenovac concentration

core   +1 more source

Jasenovac [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Jasenovac je općinsko središte u Sisačko-moslavačkoj županiji u Hrvatskoj. Tamo je bio najveći sabirni logor i logor smrti u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj.
Halar, Lorena
core   +3 more sources

Picturing Jasenovac: Atrocity Photography Between Evidence and Propaganda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Between 1941 and 1945, approximately 80,000 inmates, mainly Serbs, Jews and Roma, perished in Jasenovac, a brutal Ustasha–run concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia.
Byford, Jovan
core   +1 more source

The Ustaše and the Roman Catholic Church in the Independent State of Croatia

open access: yes, 2020
On April 6, 1941, the Axis—German, Italian, Bulgarian and Hungarian military forces- invaded, occupied and partitioned Yugoslavia. Four days later, Slavko Kvaternik, the commander of the Ustaša forces, assumed power in Zagreb and proclaimed the New ...
Retchkiman, Golda
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