Chapter 2 Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State 1
5. Chapter 1 Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece 28
6. Chapter 2 Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina 43
7. Chapter 3 Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness 57
8. Chapter 4 The Material Life of War at the Greek Border 71
9. Chapter 5 (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event 88
10. Chapter 6 Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos 104
11. Chapter 7 Eyes Shut, Muted Voices” Narrating and Temporalizing the Post–Civil War Era through a Monument 117
12. Chapter 8 Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World 131
13. Index 145