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Movement as Conflict Transformation

Rescripting Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Authors:
  1. Susan Forde

    1. Department of Politics, University of York, York, UK

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  • Bridges the fields of human geography and peacebuilding through a spatially based analysis of conflict transformation
  • Presents a case study of participatory research and identifies the importance of participatory approaches to research in post-conflict studies
  • Provides an exclusive focus on the city of Mostar and the narrative of residents of the city, how they move through and use the city space

Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Space, Time and Mostar: Welcome to Mostar

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 1-20

  3. Rescripting and Restaging: Spatialising Structure and Agency

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 21-39

  4. Spatialising Conflict Transformation: Spaces of Peace (and Conflict)

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 41-69

  5. Mostar Through Time: Staging and Scripting in the City

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 71-103

  6. Spatial Narratives in the City: Art, Graffiti, and Movement

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 105-153

  7. Social Constellations of Transformation: Space, Place and Transformation

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 155-207

  8. Rescripting Spaces and Places: Mostar and Other Divided Cities

    • Susan Forde
    Pages 209-220

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 221-225
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About this book

This book presents narratives of the social use of space in the divided city of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through the narratives of movement in the city, the work demonstrates how residents engage informally with conflict transformation through new movement and use of spaces. This book will appeal across the social sciences, and in particular to students, academics, and researchers in the fields of peace and conflict studies, political sociology, and human geography.

Reviews

“This work will be of interest to a wider global audience involved with the topics of divided cities, the politics of space, and peace and conflict studies. ... I recommend the book as an introduction for researching space dynamics of conflict transformation in Mostar or elsewhere, particularly due to the important analysis conducted on the role played by the saf, okc, mrs, or uwc in the spatial conflict transformation of the town.” (Igor Stipić, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 43 (3), 2019)

“Forde’s book is not only empirically rich and visually powerful, but it also provides a dynamic understanding of the city as a space of conflict transformation. It takes movement through the Bosnian city of Mostar as an indicator of social agency and thus elegantly reflects on the extent to which peace happens in the everyday life in urban landscapes. Forde succeeds in providing a close reading of Mostar’s urban landscape to highlight previously undocumented processes of conflict transformation. Within the ‘spatial turn’ of International Relations as well as Peace and Conflict Studies, this will be a key reference point in the literature.” (Dr Stefanie Kappler, Durham University)

“This important book successfully bridges peace and conflict research with human geography to advance the spatialising peace and conflict research agenda. Drawing on recent theoretical developments Susan Forde brings new insights to spatially situated peacebuilding agency. The book’s detailed research from the city Mostar with its reflective methodology breaks new empirical ground. Thus, the book provides key theoretical and empirical knowledge to the study of divided city, to analysis of transitions from war to peace and to our understanding of post-war reconstruction. As such it makes a critical and valuable contribution to the field of peace and conflict research.” (Professor Annika Björkdahl, Lund University)

 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics, University of York, York, UK

    Susan Forde

About the author

Susan Forde is an Associate Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York, UK. Dr Forde’s research is based in the field of peacebuilding and post-conflict studies, with a focus on conflict transformation, space, agency and participatory approaches to research.

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