International projects
Time is (not) on my side: Remembering victims of slow violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting
Researchers (2)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
57865 |
PhD Tamara Banjeglav |
Culturology |
Researcher |
2024 |
0 |
| 2. |
27738 |
PhD Tanja Petrović |
Anthropology |
Head |
2024 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
What is happening when nothing is happening? And how can we study events that are ‘uneventful’? As a research field, memory
studies has not been providing adequate answers to these questions, as it has been shaped by studying singular events and violent
episodes in history, such as wars, conflicts and genocide (particularly the Holocaust) and their (public) remembrance. However, the
proposed project (RESLOVI) argues that it is time to move research beyond the focus on remembrance of conflicts. RESLOVI proposes
an innovative approach to viewing the aftermath of violent events by focusing on memories and experiences of displacement, caused
by a war and a natural disaster. The project’s main research objective is to rethink memory of suffering and violence in a post-conflict
and post-disaster setting by raising awareness of violence that is ‘unspectacular’, hidden from view, and not publicly remembered or
even acknowledged as violence at all. RESLOVI counters the mainstream theories of memory studies by employing an innovative
theory of ‘slow violence’. The project examines how people from a region in a post-conflict and post-disaster country grapple with
and remember the experience of displacement, which is considered as a form of ‘slow violence’. The project entails 3 key objectives:
(1) To contribute to innovative research on ‘slow violence’ by studying its characteristics in a region of post-war Croatia at the
example of slow-moving transformations of the built environment that produced new vulnerabilities (displacements); (2) To
introduce the ‘slow memory’ theoretical approach into studying how memories of Croatian population’s displacement are triggered
and reframed in the context of new displacements happening due to new crisis situations; (3) To analyse the community response
(‘mnemonic solidarity’) to suffering and to contribute to research on political significance of citizens’ mobilization and agency in a
post-disaster setting and in a post-conflict context
