A tour to a site of genocide: Mothers, bones and borders

Journal of International Women's Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 320-330

  Simic, Olivera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bosnia and Herzegovina; Feminist scholar; Insider; Post genocide

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849092623     PISSN: 15398706     EISSN: 15398706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. I would like to thank Joan Nestle for her valuable and helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay.
2. Lather, P.(1988). Feminist perspectives on empowering research methodologies. Women's Studies International Forum, 11(6), 569-581, 571.
3. Srebrenica was one of six UN declared 'safe areas' (the other were Zepa, Gorazde, Tuzla, Sarajevo, and Bihac). The UN voted to make the Bosnian town of Srebrenica a safe haven in 1993 (see UN Security Council Resolutions 819 and 836).
4. Story told to us in Potocari by the Dutch representative of memorial center in Potocari.
5. 2007 IAGS Meeting Program Responding to Genocide Before It's Too Late Genocide Studies and Prevention, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 9 - 13 July 2007 at 1 September 2007.
6. Refers to the evening meal for breaking the daily fast during a Muslim religious observance in the month of Ramadan.