HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2021) Waiting to Wait: Exiled Time, Sacred Landscapes and Struggles to Return in the Bosnian Dinaric Highlands (SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series 2020/21). In: SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series 2020/21, 18 November 2020, Online.
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Abstract
Anthropological studies of forced displacement are increasingly attending to the structural and affective aspects of temporal arrangements. It seems that, as the Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar once wrote, ‘it’s time to think about time’. In this talk, I am particularly concerned with spatio-temporal fractures and continuities in the lives of post-war returnees to the Dinaric highlands of south-eastern Bosnia. Based on long-term fieldwork, I trace their attempts to restore a disrupted sacred calendar of syncretic feasts signalled by the shared (Muslim-Christian) figure of St Elijah. Unfitting to the nationalist projects of ethno-religious cleansing, these temporal orientations also have significant political connotations. I begin by suggesting that time appears in discreet relations from which people and entire landscapes can be distemporalised and ask what happens when different spatio-temporal orders meet (in the same body or landscape). I also explore how qualitatively different kinds of waiting merge in a post-conflict context to ensure the persistence of returnees’ orientation towards the homely.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Items (Paper) |
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Keywords: | time, space, forced migration, return, Bosnia, waiting, repair, nationalism |
SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology |
Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2024 08:31 |
URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/42803 |
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http://eprints. ... as.ac.uk/31798/
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