Challenging the Representation of Ethnically Divided Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367707255 / Miękka / 2023 / 118 str.

Opis

This book questions the existing overrepresentation of Mostar as an ethnically ‘divided city’.

Spis treści

1. Challenging the representation of ethnically divided cities: perspectives from Mostar

Giulia Carabelli, Aleksandra Djurasovic and Renata Summa

2. Divided cities as complex cities: transition and complexity in the city of Mostar

Aleksandra Djurasovic

3. Inventing places: disrupting the ‘divided city’

Renata Summa

4. Socio-spatial agency and positive peace in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Susan Forde

5. The politics of landscape as ways of life in the ‘divided’ city: reflections from Mostar, Bosnia–Herzegovina

Sunčana Laketa

6. Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar

Giulia Carabelli

7. Youth activism and dignity in post-war Mostar – envisioning a shared future through heritage

Gustav Wollentz, Marko Barišić and Nourah Sammar

8. False stories from the history of Mostar

Anja Bogojević, Amila Puzić and Mela Žuljević

O autorze

Giulia Carabelli is an urban and cultural sociologist interested in grassroots politics, art and the everyday life. She is the author of The Divided City and the Grassroots: The (Un)making of Ethnic Divisions in Mostar (2018).

Aleksandra Djurasovic is an urban planner/geographer focusing on post-socialist, neoliberal and war-to-peace transitions in Southeast Europe. She is the author of Ideology, Political Transitions and the City: The Case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016).

Renata Summa is a researcher on international relations interested in borders, boundaries, mobility and the everyday life. She is the author of Everyday Boundaries, Borders and Post Conflict Societies (forthcoming).