Naslov
Transitional Justice and Internationally Produced 'Scientific Injustices' about Post-War Traumatized Communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Autori
Cvikić, Sandra

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Western Balkans Cooperation, Geopolitics and Economic Transitions and Relations

Urednik/ci
Mulalić, Muhidin ; Topcu, Emel ; Muhasilović, Jahja

Izdavač
Internacionalni Univerzitet u Sarajevu

Grad
Sarajevo

Godina
2022

Raspon stranica
12-28

ISBN
978-9958-896-54-5

Ključne riječi
scientific injustices, transitional justice, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sažetak
In this chapter, the relationship between transitional justice and internationally produced ‘scientific injustices’ (Cvikić, 2019) about post-war traumatized communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina are debated to show how after the violent disintegration of former socialist Yugoslavia powerful internationally sponsored research has shaped the discourse of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Namely, living in the post-conflict society traumatized communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina are faced with new mechanisms and ways of identity (re)construction through socially engineered policies of transitional justice (Cvikić and Živić, 2016). Therefore, this chapter provides an insight into how and in what way, and to what end, new identities of traumatized communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina are socially (re)constructed by international scholarship. Sociological research of internationally produced knowledge about transitional justice mechanism’s influence on postwar/post-communist society and traumatized communities in the last twenty years is done through the application of Foucauldian discourse analysis methodology (Klos-Czerowinska, 2015 ; Keller, Hornidge and Schünemann, 2020). Also, social constructivism is used as a theory to deconstruct already established factual truths about Bosnia and Herzegovina’s democratic transition (Berger and Luckmann, 1992 ; Detel, 2001). Chapter in its conclusion indicates new transformative causes, forms and practices that have negative effects on how traumatized post-war communities are understood and shaped in the neoliberal context of internationally produced knowledge whose transitional justice scholarship already treats people of Bosnia and Herzegovina as impotent observers unable to independently make decisions about their own lives and the society they are living.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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