Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia

1. Introduction: Heritage in ´conflict-time´ and nation-building in the former Yugoslavia - Gruia Badescu, Britt Baillie and Francesco Mazzucchelli.- I. Remaking the Urban.- 2.Beyond Yugoslavia: Reshaping Heritage in Belgrade - Gruia Badescu.- 3. Carving war onto the city: monuments to the 1992-95 conflict in Sarajevo - Maja Musi.- 4. Heritage Reconstruction in Mostar: Minorities and Multiculturalism in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina - Emily Gunzburger Makas.- 5. The Limits of Affects: Defacing Skopje 2014 - Goran Janev and Fabio Mattioli.- II. Rebordering Memory.- 6. Borders and Narratives in Bosnia Herzegovina. A semiotic approach to the study of postwar cultural memories in conflict - Francesco Mazzucchelli.- 7. Seeing Red: Yugo-Nostalgia of real and imagined Italian Borders - Roberta Altin and Claudio Minca.- 8. Long Live Yugoslavia! War, Violence, Memory and the Heritage of Yugoslavia in Slovenia and the Italo-Slovene Borderland - Borut Klabjan.- 9. Religiously Nationalizing the Landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina- Robert M. Hayden & Mario Katic.- 10. The politics of the past in Kosovo: divisive and shared heritage in Mitrovica - Mattias Legnér and Simona Bravaglieri.- III. (Re)Membering: Monuments, Memorials and Museums.-11. Njegos Chapel vs. Njegos Mausoleum - the Post-Yugoslav Ethnicization of Cultural Heritage in Montenegro - Nikola Zecevic.- 12. The Post-Yugoslav Museumscape: The nationalization of the Second World War in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Natasa Jagdhuhn.- 13. Locating Memorials: Transforming Partisan Monuments into Cultural Heritage - Jonas Frykman.- 14. Vukovar's memorials and the making of conflict-time - Britt Baillie.

 

 

Dr. Gruia Badescu 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.