Architecture, Urban Space and War: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo (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." (4e de couv.) Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Warscapes: Introduction (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 1-27 Cities, Nationalism and Conflict (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 29-50 Topography of Terror: Sniping and Shelling of Urban Space (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 51-72 Landscape of Ruins: Targeting Architecture (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 73-106 Resistance (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 107-129 Rebordering Sarajevo (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 131-151 Specter of War (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 153-176 Painful Memories and Parallel Histories (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 177-207 Lessons from Sarajevo (Mirjana Ristic)....Pages 209-223 Back Matter ....Pages 225-260