Have You Ever Been in Bosnia? British Military Travelers in the Balkans since 1992
Have You Ever Been in Bosnia? British Military Travelers in the Balkans since 1992
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DOI：
10.3167/jys.2011.120104
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
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0.3
通讯作者：
Baker, Catherine
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作者：
Baker, Catherine
1992年至2007年期间，数万名英国军事人员作为维和人员前往前南斯拉夫。英国军队建立军事存在和供应链的定居点在概念上远离前南斯拉夫的旅游景点，但军事旅行者通过借鉴以前的旅行记录和部署前训练的经验教训，对它们有了意义。英国军事旅行者把自己塑造成波斯尼亚经常受挫的帮手，他们在活动中受到政治限制，但在改善直接社区的社会经济关系方面感到满意。对于军队来说，在一个稳定而惊人的廉价国家长期无所事事，产生了一种旅游的敏感性。这篇文章利用出版的回忆录和五十多个新的口述历史采访英国维和人员和他们的波斯尼亚雇员，以说明英国军事旅行者如何借鉴，延续和改变英国前往巴尔干半岛的模式和代表性。
Tens of thousands of British military personnel traveled in former Yugoslavia as peacekeepers between 1992 and 2007. The settlements where British forces established their military presence and supply chain were conceptually far from former Yugoslavia's tourist sites, but military travelers made sense of them by drawing on the commonplaces of previous travel accounts and the lessons of pre-deployment training. British military travelers constructed themselves as often frustrated helpers in Bosnia who struggled with political limitations on their activities but found satisfaction in improving socio-economic relations at the level of the immediate community. For troops, long otiose periods in a stabilizing and startlingly cheap country engendered a touristic sensibility. This article draws on published memoirs and more than fifty new oral history interviews with British peacekeepers and their Bosnian employees to illustrate how British military travelers drew on, perpetuated, and changed the patterns and representation of British travel to the Balkans.