{"product_id":"death-and-burial-in-socialist-yugoslavia-the-politicization-of-cemeteries-and-ethnic-conflict-in-the-balkans-9781350285828","title":"Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcross the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia \u0026amp; Hercegovina, Croatia, and Serbia to shine fresh light on cemetery culture in 20th-century Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More specifically, \u003ci\u003eDeath and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia\u003c\/i\u003e argues that while the CPY created its own communities of the dead in postwar Partisan Cemeteries, it failed to do the same for civilian cemeteries in ways that might reinforce its ideals of secularism, pluralism, and brotherhood and unity. Moreover, the communist regime left the previous system of ethno-religious segregation in place, further isolating Catholics, Orthodox, Muslims and Jews who continued to be buried in separate locations. Finally, it explicitly politicized burial rites and grave markers, making cemeteries into legitimate spaces of political discourse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a result, by the time Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s, dead bodies and cemeteries had become a concerted weapon of war in the ongoing ethnic conflict. Ultimately, then, this timely study reveals for the first time the extent to which the communist regime not only failed to created their own communities of the dead but also further divided and alienated living communities in Yugoslavia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol S. Lilly \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at the University of Nebraska Kearney, USA. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Power and Persuasion: Ideology and Rhetoric in Communist Yugoslavia, 1944-1953\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eNatalija: Life in the Balkan Powderkeg \u003c\/i\u003e(2011, with Jill Irvine).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914417148178,"sku":"9781350285828","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d186ebe6-e142-4272-a564-462ac1d50aa4.jpg?v=1738815520","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/death-and-burial-in-socialist-yugoslavia-the-politicization-of-cemeteries-and-ethnic-conflict-in-the-balkans-9781350285828","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}