Novi radovi Maxa Bergholza iz bosanskohercegovačke povijesti nasilja
Objavljeni su novi radovi Maxa Bergholza iz bosanskohercegovačke nasilne prošlosti, s fokusom na studije slučaja Kulen-Vakufa i Bihaća (Garavice) te Srebrenice.
Šutnja u kamenu. Memorijalizacija nasilja među zajednicama u zemlji bratstva i jedinstva
Prilozi, Univerzitet u Sarajevu – Institut za historiju, Sarajevo, 2024, br. 53
Sažetak: Zašto se dešavaju šutnje o nasilju među zajednicama i da li u nasiljem podijeljenim zajednicama njihovo kasnije prekidanje dovodi do pomirenja? Pričajući dvije priče o spomenicima izgrađenim u sjeverozapadnoj Bosni nakon Drugog svjetskog rata i o radikalnim promjenama koje su na njima učinjene nakon rata 1992–1995, ova lokalna historija postavlja pitanje od globalnog značaja: Mogu li spomenici nasilnoj prošlosti ikada kreirati “pravedno sjećanje” koje podsjeća i na našu čovječnost i na našu nečovječnost, kao i na čovječnost i nečovječnost “drugih” koje možda još uvijek doživljavamo kao neprijatelje?
Rad je dostupan na sljedećem linku:
Rad je izvorno objavljen na engleskom jeziku pod naslovom “Silence Enshrined: Memorializing Intercommunal Violence in a Land of Brotherhood and Unity.” History & Memory 36, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2024): 7-44.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/922594
Uncomfortable Evidence: On the Challenge of Telling New Stories about Srebrenica
Journal of Genocide Research, February 2025, 1–21.
Sažetak: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sculpted the story of July 1995 in Srebrenica. In working to hold accountable the perpetrators of the crime of genocide, among other crimes against humanity, the ICTY’s prosecutors gathered an immense amount of evidence, presented cases in the courtroom, and obtained numerous convictions. These legal proceedings have engendered bitter, ongoing disputes among various actors in Bosnia–Herzegovina over their validity. All these dynamics have affected how historians approach this history. In general, they have not posed questions that stray far from the objectives that are firmly tied to the ICTY’s genocide narrative, with its clear categories of perpetrators and victims, and objective of establishing the guilt of the former and the victimization of the latter. Nearly thirty years since July 1995, perhaps the time has come to ask: what can we learn from this approach that is new? Rather than retelling what we already know about these events, we might consider turning our analytical gaze toward what is called here, “uncomfortable evidence.” This is a shorthand for stories about July 1995 that resist our desire to domesticate them into binary categories of black and white, which are more relevant for legal proceedings, and those who seek to use history to affirm or deny their results. Instead, stories based on uncomfortable evidence – three of which are told and analysed here – invite us to enter a grey zone where we embrace the complexity of human behaviour and take up the challenge of accounting for it. In so doing, historians of Srebrenica can more effectively return to a primary challenge of their discipline: to explain this violent past, while resisting the urge to make sense of it with rigid categories based on their contemporary moral and political positions.
Jedan dio rada je dostupan na sljedećem linku:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2025.2460874?src=exp-la