Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts
Edited by Gruia Bădescu, Britt Baillie, Francesco Mazzucchelli
Heritage became a target during the Yugoslav Wars as part of ethnic cleansing and urbicide. Out of the ashes of war, pasts were remodelled, places took on new layers of meaning, and a wave of new memorialization took hold. Three decades since the fall of Vukovar and the end of the siege of Sarajevo, and more than a decade since Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, conflict has shifted from armed confrontations to battles about the past. The former Yugoslavia has been described on the one hand as a bastion of plurality and multiculturalism, and on the other, as a territory of antagonism and radical nationalisms, echoing imaginaries and narratives relevant to Europe as a whole. With Croatia having entered the EU in 2013 and the continuous political contestation in the region, wounds in the memory fabric of the former Yugoslavia have once more come to the world’s attention. Thus, there is the question what will happen when the former republics are ‘reunited’ once more under the EU umbrella, itself beset by increasing populisms, nationalisms, and the looming prospects of territorial fragmentation. This collection scrutinizes the role of heritage in ‘conflict-time’, inquires what role the past might have in creating new identities at the local, regional, national, and supra-national levels, and investigates the dynamics of heritage as a process.
Table of contents
Introduction: Heritage in ‘Conflict-Time’ and Nation-Building in the Former Yugoslavia
Gruia Bădescu, Britt Baillie, Francesco Mazzucchelli
Remaking the Urban
Beyond Yugoslavia: Reshaping Heritage in Belgrade
Gruia Bădescu
Carving War onto the City: Monuments to the 1992–95 Conflict in Sarajevo
Maja Musi
Heritage Reconstruction in Mostar: Minorities and Multiculturalism in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
Emily Gunzburger Makaš
The Limits of Affects: Defacing Skopje 2014
Goran Janev, Fabio Mattioli
Rebordering Memory
Borders of Memory: Competing Heritages and Fractured Memoryscapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Francesco Mazzucchelli
‘Seeing Red’. Yugo-Nostalgia of Real and Imagined Borders
Roberta Altin, Claudio Minca
Long Live Yugoslavia! War, Memory Activism, and the Heritage of Yugoslavia in Slovenia and in the Italo-Slovene Borderland
Borut Klabjan
Religiously Nationalizing the Landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Robert M. Hayden, Mario Katić
The Politics of the Past in Kosovo: Divisive and Shared Heritage in Mitrovica
Mattias Legnér, Simona Bravaglieri
(Re)Membering: Monuments, Memorials and Museums
The Njegoš Chapel Versus the Njegoš Mausoleum—The Post-Yugoslav Ethnicization of Cultural Heritage in Montenegro
Nikola Zečević
The Post-Yugoslav Kaleidoscope: Curatorial Tactics in the (Ethno) Nationalization of Second World War Memorial Museums in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nataša Jagdhuhn
Locating Memorials: Transforming Partisan Monuments into Cultural Heritage
Jonas Frykman
Vukovar’s Memorials and the Making of Conflict-Time
Britt Baillie
About the editors
Dr. Gruia Bădescu is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, and was previously Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK.
Dr. Britt Baillie is Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Founding Member of the Centre for Urban Conflict Research, University of Cambridge, UK. She was previously Affiliated Lecturer at the Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Dr. Francesco Mazzucchelli is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies and CUE International Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Umberto Eco”, University of Bologna, Italy, and a Founding Member of TraMe Center for the Semiotic Study of Cultural Memory, University of Bologna, Italy.
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