{"id":24273,"date":"2020-12-22T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24273"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:39:47","slug":"jovan-byford-picturing-genocide-in-the-independent-state-of-croatia-atrocity-images-and-the-contested-memory-of-the-second-world-war-in-the-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24273","title":{"rendered":"Jovan Byford, \u201cPicturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia<\/em> examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial and politically divisive episodes of the war &#8212; genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) &#8212; the book examines the origins, history and legacy of violent images.<br><br>Notably, this book pays special attention to the politics of the atrocity photograph. It explores how images were strategically and selectively mobilized at different times, and by different memory communities and stakeholders, to do different things: justify retribution against political opponents in the immediate aftermath of the war, sustain the discourses of national unity on which socialist Yugoslavia was founded, or, in the post-communist era, prop-up different nationalist agendas, and &#8216;frame&#8217; the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.<br><br>In exploring this hitherto neglected aspect of Yugoslav history and visual culture, Jovan Byford sheds important light on the intricate nexus of political, cultural and psychological factors which account for the enduring power of atrocity images to shape the collective memory of mass violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Introduction: Picturing Genocide<br>2. Evidencing &#8216;Unprecedented Savagery&#8217;: Atrocity Photographs in Occupied Yugoslavia<br>3. &#8216;Gather Photographs!&#8217;: The Birth of the Visual Memory of Ustasha Violence<br>4. Why Look at Fascism? Visual Propaganda and Revolutionary Justice in Post-war Yugoslavia<br>5. Ustasha Violence through the Prism of &#8216;Brotherhood and Unity&#8217;: The Dilemmas of Visual Memory in Socialist Yugoslavia<br>6. &#8216;The Dead Open the Eyes of the Living&#8217;: Atrocity Images after Tito<br>7. Mobilising Images: Visual Memory of the Second World War and the Yugoslav Conflict of the 1990s<br>Conclusion: Atrocity Photographs beyond Idolatry and Oblivion<br>Bibliography<br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis thoughtful and persuasively argued book explores images of Ustasha atrocities to shed light not only on Yugoslavia&#8217;s troubled and divided visual memory but also on the broader social and cultural history of the socialist country and its post-socialist successors. Byford&#8217;s thought-provoking and nuanced analysis of these graphic photographs and their many uses opens an unexpected window onto some of the most important moments, transitions and conflicts in Yugoslav history.\u201d&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp; Ana Antic, Associate Professor of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia<\/em> is a theoretically-sophisticated and painstakingly-researched book. It debunks several major mythologies about the postwar memory of genocidal Ustasha violence during World War II. Byford approaches the history of atrocity photography in Yugoslavia and its successor states with strong ethical commitments and razor-sharp analysis, and illuminates the questions of production and consumption of atrocity photography in changing historical contexts more generally.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Emil Kerenji, Applied Research Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Author\/Editor(s)\/ Contributor(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jovan Byford is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 25-06-2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format: EPUB\/MOBI eBook (Watermarked)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edition: 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extent: 224<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN: 9781350015975<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Series: War, Culture and Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Illustrations: 44 bw illus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/picturing-genocide-in-the-independent-state-of-croatia-9781350015975\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/picturing-genocide-in-the-independent-state-of-croatia-9781350015975\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>O knjizi je ve\u0107 obavije\u0161teno na portalu Historiografija.ba:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=334\">https:\/\/www.historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=334<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Byford.jpg?fit=420%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55912,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55912","url_meta":{"origin":24273,"position":0},"title":"Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalised Destruction. 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