Re-Making Kozarac

Sebina Sivac-Bryant is an anthropologist specialising in human responses to challenging situations. Born in Kozarac, Bosnia-Hercegovina, she lived in Zagreb, Limerick and London after being expelled from her home town in 1992. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London, UK.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Army of the Dispossessed.- Chapter 2. Return.- Chapter 3. A Community of Mourners: Collective and Personal Rituals of Loss.- Chapter 4. Omarska.- Chapter 5. KOZARAC.BA: Online Community as a Network Bridge.- Chapter 6. Economic Sustainability in a Land of Corruption.- Conclusion. On Return as Redress.

“Re-Making Kozarac fills a significant gap in the scholarship about post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina where, despite the profusion of academic studies about the political system, reconciliation and victimhood, case studies focusing on the grass-roots community level remain scarce. … it offers valuable lessons for researchers as well as practitioners in the fields of post-conflict peacebuilding and transitional justice as it shakes ingrained assumptions about victimhood, trauma and reconciliation.” (Sarah Correia, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2017)“Sebina Sivac-Bryant’s anthropological study focuses on the postconflict society in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, the author reconstructsthe return process of Bosniaks to their former hometown Kozarac. … Sivac-Bryant makes an important contribution to the understanding of postconflict societies. … she has succeeded in compiling a very relevant work on postconflict societies.” (Manuela Brenner, Südosteuropa, Vol. 65 (4), 2017)