The consequences of armed conflicts on life paths of Bosniaks from Eastern Bosnia

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.

Keywords

• life paths
• time-geography
• time-space activity diaries
• biographies
• war conflict
• post-war situation
• eastern bosnia and herzegovina