Svakodnevica rata – Konstrukcija i dekonstrukcija svakodnevnog života u ratnim uvjetima na dubrovačkom području

Glavočić, Tia. (2018). Svakodnevica rata – Konstrukcija i dekonstrukcija svakodnevnog života u ratnim uvjetima na dubrovačkom području. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. [mentor Škrbić Alempijević, Nevena and Vukušić, Ana-Marija].

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the everyday lives of the civilian population of Dubrovnik during the Croatian War of Independence, when violence put a stop to the former way of life and social functioning. As pre-war ordinary life was being dismantled, a struggle for physical as well as emotional and moral survival began. Everyday life is ultimately reconstructed in a way that facilitates both survival and resistance. The adaptability to increasingly poor and dangerous living conditions is most visible in the construction of “the new normal”, i.e. the acceptance of new and, in comparison with times of peace, abnormal living conditions and situations as normal, such as the lack of electricity, water and heating, and frequent shelling. The paper outlines changes in several key areas of life: from the financial aspects of survival to the redefining of social relations, forms of resistance and emotions. The paper is based on field research consisting of 7 semi-structured interviews with a total of 10 interviewees, all citizens of Dubrovnik who spent the duration of the war in Dubrovnik or left it with their children as refugees for no more than several months.

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