BOSNIANHOOD, KNOWLEDGE AND FORGERY. CONTEXT OF IDENTITY ANNIHILATION OF BOSNIANHOOD AND BOSNIAKS Cover Image

Bosanstvo, znanje i falsifikati. Kontekst identitetne anihilacije bosanstva i Bošnjaka
BOSNIANHOOD, KNOWLEDGE AND FORGERY. CONTEXT OF IDENTITY ANNIHILATION OF BOSNIANHOOD AND BOSNIAKS

Author(s): Senadin Lavić
Subject(s): Nationalism Studies, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: Bosnia; Bosnianhood; forgeries counterfeits; methodical deconstruction; anti Bosnian mythomania;

Summary/Abstract: The process of forgery (Ger. Die Fälschung; Engl. falsification) of Bosnian historical and cultural content has been going against Bosnia for a long time. In this negation, a special method of falsifying of facts has been developed that is incompatible with the historical Bosnian "truth". This obscure method is used to pervert the historical events that essentially determine Bosnia and it is shaped to false information about it through which it cannot be recognized in its historical, cultural, legal and political existence. This perversion, distorting or curving the content of the Bosnian cultural and historical existence leads to the negation of the being of Bosnia. The basis of this methodical approach is a false and knowingly distorted presentation of facts. This method and, through it, constructed perverted images have a key place in anti-Bosnian mythomania. In many fields of cultural manifestation against Bosnia, counterfeits or forgeries took place of true facts which made the elementary structure of Bosnia perverted and imposed upon it the contents that does not belong to its essential definition. Renaming and falsifying the facts about Bosnia and Bosniaks has begun as an evil planned transformation of the Bosnian and Bosniak into "something else", which has never been and with which it was not essentially connected. For this, fertile soil has been found in a religious difference that has been declared as false, alien and inappropriate in this area. From this religious difference, over time, a "different" folk form or three "different" folk forms were produced that from the 1860s to 1992 became almost inconceivable forms of difference and ideological confrontation from which their Bosnian origin was hidden. We live the historical phase of liberation from the imposed constructions about our Bosnian being that can last for a long time. That requires a lot of work and responsibility. Are we able to understand what is meant "artistic" falsification of Bosnia in a fictional construct, the aesthetizing of evil in a certain historical work, sociological-political analysis of social processes or in some other imprecise construction of Bosnia, which is inspired by the ideological intention to forge its content? What is it that prevents the possibility of understanding and clearing with the intended constructs? What is with intellectual and moral responsibility to deny the construction that is a lie? It is necessary to develop a complete epistemic-methodic deconstruction of historically established falsifications about Bosnia, which today exists as alleged scientific facts or unreliable cultural phenomena. Such common sense self-understanding has led to the damnatio memoriae, domination and management of stereotypes over our rational aspects of reality.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 246-270
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Bosnian