Abstract
This article sets out to describe the individual mobility of persons affected by the war in former Yugoslavia from a long-term, biographical perspective. It evaluates how the conflict and post-conflict conditions limit or enhance the spatial range of individual activities. The time-geographical approach is applied through the usage of spatio-temporal records of the war and post-war life. Thirty-two respondents from Bosnia and Herzegovina were interviewed, and asked to generate an “ex-post facto” open time-space activity diary. The article demonstrates the usefulness of the time-space activity diary usage as a significant instrument for a sensible analysis of life-paths.
Highlights
Every war and armed conflict in the history was accompanied by inhuman treatment, violence, atrocities and killings, which imprints deep mark on all members of the society regardless of their gender, age, education, cultural background, nationality or religious membership
Interviews were used to provide context to other data, offering a more complete picture of what happened in the life of the respondents and why
The results of the analysis of the group of respondents in our study have, on the one hand, a limited informative value, on the other hand they describe in more detail the difficult situation of a selected sample of the population of war and post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary
Every war and armed conflict in the history was accompanied by inhuman treatment, violence, atrocities and killings, which imprints deep mark on all members of the society regardless of their gender, age, education, cultural background, nationality or religious membership. Violence and wars did not have impact only on the economy and on social structures within the territory of former Yugoslavia. It affected the large migratory movements that emerged towards the end of the 20th century. Significant changes, caused by the conflicts at the end of the last century, occurred in the inner structure of the populations of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. They represent the most recent examples that have remained etched in the collective memory of the nations in question
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