Human Behaviour in the Territory Affected by War Conflict: Theoretical Moetodological Notes and Examples of War and Post War Life
Human Behaviour in the Territory Affected by War Conflict: Theoretical Moetodological Notes and Examples of War and Post War Life

Theoretical Moetodological Notes and Examples of War and Post War Life

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents theoretical and methodological framework for research into spatial behaviour of individuals and groups in their everyday life based on the principles of behavioural geography applying the concept of time geography. This concept is recognised as an appropriate tool for systematic research of activities. The presented methods are meant to prove the legitimacy of their use in research. Examples showed that the time-spatial budgets are a reliable tool for acquisition of information about behaviour and decision-making in everyday life of the chosen individuals on the territory of former Yugoslavia before and during the war in the 1990s and at present. The obtained data were visualised in 3D graphs. Diary data were supplemented by interviews which helped to understand individual behaviour in the context of social, cultural, economical, and political structures and norms in the pre-war and post-war environment of the eastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here described methods and their application are concrete examples how to treat and interpret the complexity of time-spatial behaviour of people in the land stricken by war conflict.

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