Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia : The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans / Carol S. Lilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilly, Carol S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Burial.

Memorials--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Memorials.

Cemeteries--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Cemeteries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, and Serbia to shine fresh light on cemetery culture in 20th-century Europe. More specifically, Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia investigates how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia created its own communities of the dead by implementing cemetery policies which reinforced their ideals of secularism, pluralism, brotherhood, and unity. However, in doing so the communist regime left the previous system of ethno-religious segregation in place and further isolated Catholics, Orthodox, Muslims and Jews who continued to be buried in separate locations. This in turn further politicized burial rites and exacerbated tensions between different ethno-religious communities. As a result, by the time Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s, dead bodies and cemeteries had become a concerted weapon of war in the ongoing ethnic conflict. Ultimately, then, this timely study reveals for the first time the extent to which the communist regime not only failed to created their own communities of the dead but also further divided and alienated living communities in Yugoslavia."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Foundations Introduction. 1. Burial Cultures of the Former Yugoslavia ; 2. Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina in Socialist Yugoslavia

Part II. Public and Private Forms of Commemoration in Socialist Yugoslavia. 3. The Secularization of Cemeteries ; 4. Burial Rites ; 5. Grave Markers

Part III. Socialist Necropolitics. 6. The Politicization of Cemeteries: Mass Graves and Grave Desecrations ; 7. Conclusion and Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Lilly, Carol S. Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia

ISBN:

9781350285859

1350285854

9781350285835

1350285838

9781350285842

1350285846

OCLC:

1295394153