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Architecture, Urban Space and War

The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo

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Authors:
  1. Mirjana Ristic

    1. Institute for Sociology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  • Investigates the political role of a constellation of places within the city
  • Illustrates how buildings, public spaces and heritage places operate as tools for mediating, contesting and subverting the politics that motivate conflict
  • Provides new empirical material about the relationship between architecture, urban space and conflict over territory and identity and an innovative spatial framework for analyzing the political role of contemporary cities

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Warscapes: Introduction

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 1-27

  3. Cities, Nationalism and Conflict

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 29-50

  4. Topography of Terror: Sniping and Shelling of Urban Space

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 51-72

  5. Landscape of Ruins: Targeting Architecture

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 73-106

  6. Resistance

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 107-129

  7. Rebordering Sarajevo

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 131-151

  8. Specter of War

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 153-176

  9. Painful Memories and Parallel Histories

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 177-207

  10. Lessons from Sarajevo

    • Mirjana Ristic
    Pages 209-223

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-260
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This book investigates architectural and urban dimensions of the ethnic-nationalist conflict in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during and after the siege of 1992–1995. Focusing on the wartime destruction of a portion of the cityscape in central Sarajevo and its post-war reconstruction, re-inscription and memorialization, the book reveals how such spatial transformations become complicit in the struggle for reconfiguration of the city’s territory, boundaries and place identity. Drawing on original research, the study highlights the capacities of architecture and urban space to mediate terror, violence and resistance, and to deal with heritage of the war and act a catalyst for ethnic segregation or reconciliation. Based on a multi-disciplinary methodological approach grounded in architectural and urban theory, the spatial turn in critical social theory and assemblage thinking, as well as techniques of spatial analysis, in particular morphological mapping, the book provides an innovative spatial framework for analyzing the political role of contemporary cities.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Sociology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Mirjana Ristic

About the author

Mirjana Ristic is Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology, TU Darmstadt, Germany. Her research is focused on political issues in architecture and urban design, including the role of buildings and public spaces in mediating nationalism, conflict, power, violence and resistance. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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