Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Heritage in ‘Conflict-Time’ and Nation-Building in the Former Yugoslavia

   • Gruia Bădescu, Britt Baillie, Francesco Mazzucchelli

   Pages 1-24

3. Remaking the Urban

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Beyond Yugoslavia: Reshaping Heritage in Belgrade

      • Gruia Bădescu

      Pages 27-53

   3. Carving War onto the City: Monuments to the 1992–95 Conflict in Sarajevo

      • Maja Musi

      Pages 55-82

   4. Heritage Reconstruction in Mostar: Minorities and Multiculturalism in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Emily Gunzburger Makaš

      Pages 83-105

   5. The Limits of Affects: Defacing Skopje 2014

      • Goran Janev, Fabio Mattioli

      Pages 107-128

4. Rebordering Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Borders of Memory: Competing Heritages and Fractured Memoryscapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Francesco Mazzucchelli

      Pages 131-156

   3. ‘Seeing Red’. Yugo-Nostalgia of Real and Imagined Borders

      • Roberta Altin, Claudio Minca

      Pages 157-188

   4. Long Live Yugoslavia! War, Memory Activism, and the Heritage of Yugoslavia in Slovenia and in the Italo-Slovene Borderland

      • Borut Klabjan

      Pages 189-213

   5. Religiously Nationalizing the Landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Robert M. Hayden, Mario Katić

      Pages 215-245

   6. The Politics of the Past in Kosovo: Divisive and Shared Heritage in Mitrovica

      • Mattias Legnér, Simona Bravaglieri

      Pages 247-264

5. (Re)Membering: Monuments, Memorials and Museums

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265

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   2. The Njegoš Chapel Versus the Njegoš Mausoleum—The Post-Yugoslav Ethnicization of Cultural Heritage in Montenegro

      • Nikola Zečević

      Pages 267-293

   3. The Post-Yugoslav Kaleidoscope: Curatorial Tactics in the (Ethno) Nationalization of Second World War Memorial Museums in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Nataša Jagdhuhn

      Pages 295-322

   4. Locating Memorials: Transforming Partisan Monuments into Cultural Heritage

      • Jonas Frykman

      Pages 323-349

   5. Vukovar’s Memorials and the Making of Conflict-Time

      • Britt Baillie

      Pages 351-375

6. Back Matter

   Pages 377-400

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Heritage became a target during the Yugoslav Wars as part of ethnic cleansing and urbicide. Out of the ashes of war, pasts were remodelled, places took on new layers of meaning, and a wave of new memorialization took hold. Three decades since the fall of Vukovar and the end of the siege of Sarajevo, and more than a decade since Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, conflict has shifted from armed confrontations to battles about the past. The former Yugoslavia has been described on the one hand as a bastion of plurality and multiculturalism, and on the other, as a territory of antagonism and radical nationalisms, echoing imaginaries and narratives relevant to Europe as a whole. With Croatia having entered the EU in 2013 and the continuous political contestation in the region, wounds in the memory fabric of the former Yugoslavia have once more come to the world’s attention. Thus, there is the question what will happen when the former republics are ‘reunited’ once more under the EU umbrella, itself beset by increasing populisms, nationalisms, and the looming prospects of territorial fragmentation. This collection scrutinizes the role of heritage in ‘conflict-time’, inquires what role the past might have in creating new identities at the local, regional, national, and supra-national levels, and investigates the dynamics of heritage as a process.

• Heritage
• Yugoslav wars
• Heritage reconfiguration
• Yugoslavian legacies
• Heritage rewriting
• Post-Yugoslav space
• Ethnic cleansing
• Post-war heritage
• Heritage processes

"This wonderful collection weaves together diverse and varied perspectives to explore the fascinating politics of cultural heritage in Yugoslav successor states. Properly placing cultural heritage within the contested nation-building projects of post-Yugoslav states, this volume bursts with empirical richness and detail. It is the first collection of its kind and one of tremendous scholarly value."

Jelena Subotic, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University, USA

"This book spans the territory of the former Yugoslavia, tracing how (re)emerging nation states wrestle with the legacies of tumultuous pasts as they seek to forge themselves as modern projects with promising futures. It makes essential reading for those seeking to understand the (ab)uses of heritage for nation-building purposes as much as those intrigued by the challenges faced by the region."   

Dacia Viejo Rose, Senior Lecturer in Heritage and the Politics of the Past, University of Cambridge  

“The book takes an innovative approach in interweaving cultural heritage and collective remembrance theories that opens new perspectives in the field of Southeast European memory studies. The contributions, from both established scholars as well as young researchers, are well-written and will undoubtedly inspire further discussions about memory politics in this region.”

 Vjeran Pavlaković, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia

• University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  Gruia Bădescu

• Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, South Africa

  Britt Baillie

• Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Francesco Mazzucchelli

Dr. Gruia Bădescu is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, and was previously Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK.

Dr. Britt Baillie is Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Founding Member of the Centre for Urban Conflict Research, University of Cambridge, UK. She was previously Affiliated Lecturer at the Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Francesco Mazzucchelli is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies and CUE International Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Umberto Eco”, University of Bologna, Italy, and a Founding Member of TraMe Center for the Semiotic Study of Cultural Memory, University of Bologna, Italy.

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