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Bosnia in Limbo: Testimonies from the Drina River (2017)

von Borja Lasheras

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To this day, almost all narratives on Bosnia focus on the 1990s, the war, and the labyrinth that Dayton's institutional system represents. They also tend to be imbued with a perspective that often overdoes the ethnic and religious element. The truth is that, beyond the causes of war and its manifold tragedies, we actually know very little of its forgotten consequences, once the CNN effect is long gone. As importantly, we know very little of Bosnia today: a society shaped by the past, yes, but also exposed to shifting twenty-first-century dynamics. A society haunted not only by war tragedies but also by a long-standing and long overlooked social crisis. This revealing book thus tries to provide a somewhat different picture of Bosnia, twenty years after the war. Largely based on the author's experience in the field, it is to some extent an account of rural Bosnia, in particular of the Drina River Valley, which bore the brunt of the ethnic cleansing in the 1990s. Yet, and starting off from that isolated region of open wounds, unfinished issues and a cast of characters that range from displaced persons and victims to committed women, the book aims to overall provide a portrait of modern Bosnia as such, while also looking critically at the workings of the international community and European diplomacy. The book, with its landscape of activists, Western diplomats, and inhabitants of an underground world in Sarajevo for LGBT and youths, shows a country of so-far failed Springs and leaders who go on with their bad governance. Meanwhile, the "Europe" towards which Bosnia theoretically moves drifts between a poor understanding of the country, a fear of conflict that acts as its Achilles' heel, as well as lack of genuine interest, seems unable to really change things. This compelling book shows that Bosnia is still, in a way, a country in limbo.… (mehr)
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Hard as he tries to elevate local voices, and god bless him for it, this really is the author's own testimony, although made so much better by his attempt to elevate local people and their own experience. We, his readers, outsiders seeking to understand Bosnia, still do so through Borja's filter. What a lucky mistake that Borja's filter is stupendous.

My first reaction when beginning this book was "here we go, a journalistic New York Times Weekend Magazine-style take, full of colour but devoid of content, and where it gets to saying anything at all it will all have been in the service of power."

My second thought, as I continued reading, was "wow, this man writes better than the new york times." His writing is so soft, easy, artful, agreeable. He just writes so gosh-darned well. Where does one learn to write like this?!

And finally, about halfway through, it begins to dawn on oneself that one's first reaction was utterly wrong. This is absolutely not an empty form, assertively not so much aesthetic flaunting empty of serious engagement. He is not just ticking boxes. There is indeed bravery and real substance here. There is a subjectivity that is acknowledged, claimed and argued for. There is an important critique of power here. And it is difficult to disagree with it.

The world is made better by people like Borja. And his writing. He ought to do much more of it.

In the meantime, read this book. ( )
  GeorgeHunter | Sep 13, 2020 |
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To this day, almost all narratives on Bosnia focus on the 1990s, the war, and the labyrinth that Dayton's institutional system represents. They also tend to be imbued with a perspective that often overdoes the ethnic and religious element. The truth is that, beyond the causes of war and its manifold tragedies, we actually know very little of its forgotten consequences, once the CNN effect is long gone. As importantly, we know very little of Bosnia today: a society shaped by the past, yes, but also exposed to shifting twenty-first-century dynamics. A society haunted not only by war tragedies but also by a long-standing and long overlooked social crisis. This revealing book thus tries to provide a somewhat different picture of Bosnia, twenty years after the war. Largely based on the author's experience in the field, it is to some extent an account of rural Bosnia, in particular of the Drina River Valley, which bore the brunt of the ethnic cleansing in the 1990s. Yet, and starting off from that isolated region of open wounds, unfinished issues and a cast of characters that range from displaced persons and victims to committed women, the book aims to overall provide a portrait of modern Bosnia as such, while also looking critically at the workings of the international community and European diplomacy. The book, with its landscape of activists, Western diplomats, and inhabitants of an underground world in Sarajevo for LGBT and youths, shows a country of so-far failed Springs and leaders who go on with their bad governance. Meanwhile, the "Europe" towards which Bosnia theoretically moves drifts between a poor understanding of the country, a fear of conflict that acts as its Achilles' heel, as well as lack of genuine interest, seems unable to really change things. This compelling book shows that Bosnia is still, in a way, a country in limbo.

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