Architecture, Urban Space and War

The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-09579-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ristic, Mirjana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.