Architecture, Urban Space and War

The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo

Mirjana Ristic (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 260 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-76770-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

1. Warscapes: Introduction.- 2. Cities, Nationalism and Conflict.- 3. Topography of Terror: Sniping and Shelling of Urban Space.- 4. Landscape of Ruins: Targeting Architecture.- 5. Resistance.- 6. Rebordering Sarajevo.- 7. Specter of War.- 8. Painful Memories and Parallel Histories.- 9. Lessons from Sarajevo.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 260 p. 29 illus., 27 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	599 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Architectural and urban theory • Ethnic-nationalist conflict • Heritage of the war • post-Cold War Europe • Sarajevo
ISBN-10	3-319-76770-4 / 3319767704
ISBN-13	978-3-319-76770-3 / 9783319767703
Zustand	Neuware