20.500.12556/ReVIS-13996 Between camp and cross ambiguity, memory, and commemoration in Trnopolje This article examines how historical narratives, collective memory, and embodied personal experience shape postwar nation-making and border-making in Bosnia-Herzegovina, through an ethnographic analysis of commemorative landscapes in the north-western municipality of Prijedor. Based on personal narratives, everyday practices, and situated encounters with sites such as the former Trnopolje detention camp, the Trnopolje Cross, the Kozarac memorial, and the Prijedor Cross, the article explores how ethno-national modes of commemoration produce and sustain contested ‘deathscapes’. It argues that, despite profound ethno-national and religious divisions between Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) living in Republika Srpska, the dead are publicly acknowledged and ritually commemorated in comparable ways, so long as remembrance remains anchored within nationalistic frameworks of ‘us’ versus ‘them’. Drawing on anthropological theories of collective memory (Halbwachs 1980), nationalism and nation-making (Gellner 1987; Smith 1991), and the political lives of the dead (Verdery 1999), the article demonstrates how routine, everyday engagements with monuments and commemorative practices reproduce ethno-national belonging and sediment post-conflict divisions in Prijedor. Ta članek skozi etnografsko analizo spominskih pokrajin v severozahodni občini Prijedor preučuje, kako zgodovinski narativi, kolektivni spomin in osebne izkušnje posameznikov in posameznic oblikujejo povojne procese oblikovanja naroda in meja v Bosni in Hercegovini. Na podlagi osebnih pripovedi, vsakdanjih praks in umeščenih srečanj s kraji, kot so nekdanje taborišče Trnopolje, trnopoljski križ, spomenik v Kozarcu in prijedorski križ, članek raziskuje, kako etno-nacionalni načini komemoracije proizvajajo in ohranjajo sporne »pokrajine smrti«. Trdi, da so kljub globokim etno-nacionalnim in verskim razdelitvam med bosanskimi Srbi in bosanskimi muslimani (Bošnjaki), ki živijo v Republiki Srbski, mrtvi javno priznani in ritualno komemorirani na primerljive načine, dokler je spominjanje zasidrano znotraj nacionalističnih okvirov »mi« proti »njim«. Z opiranjem na antropološke teorije kolektivnega spomina (Halbwachs 1980), nacionalizma in oblikovanja narodov (Gellner 1987; Smith 1991) ter političnega življenja mrtvih (Verdery 1999) članek pokaže, kako rutinska, vsakdanja soočanja s spomeniki in komemorativnimi praksami reproducirajo etno-nacionalno pripadnost in utrjujejo povojne delitve v Prijedorju. memorialisation remembrance monumentalisation collective identity postwar society Trnopolje Bosna-Herzegovina memorijalizacija kultura spominjanja monumentalizacija kolektivna identiteta povojna družba Trnopolje Bosna in Hercegovina true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-06-09 14:16:02 2026-06-09 14:16:03 2026-06-10 03:15:05 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 7-29 št. 2 Letn. 27 2025 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 3(497.6Trnopolje) 1580-688X 273714435 10.33700/1580-7118.27.2(2025) https://journal.almamater.si/index.php/monitorish/issue/view/57/46 1 fc0f07b4-63fc-11f1-9215-001a4af901a5 https://revis.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=16967 Univerza Alma Mater Europaea 0 0 0