Kako opisati Srebrenicu (Writing after Srebrenica)

Described by the Bosnian daily Oslobodjenje as ‘providing a key to understanding the recent past and projected future of Bosnia', the book Writing after Srebrenica deals with the Adornian ethics relating to representations of and researching and writing about genocidal violence in the Balkans and elsewhere. This is the first book so far which discusses the Bosnian Srebrenica genocide from the anthropological perspective with an emphasis on the survivors, witnesses, bystanders and perpetrators. Halilovich advocates for a new open-ended approach to writing about genocide, which pushes the boundaries between the notions of subjective and objective, ethics and aesthetics, individual and collective, local and global and past and present. By reconstructing the fragmented realities of those who perished, he ultimately calls for the recognition and acknowledgment of ‘ordinariness’ and individuality of those who were posthumously put into collective categories, mass graves and war statistics, or elevated to the abstract status of nations' martyrs.