This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and “deeply divided” societies. By exploring everyday places in post-conflict societies, it critically examines official narratives of how ethno-national divisions arise and are sustained. It challenges traditional accounts regarding the role that international intervention has in producing and/or weakening boundaries in such societies, while questioning clear-cut distinctions between the local and the international.
Author(s): Renata Summa
Series: Critical Security Studies in the Global South
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
1 Introduction
1.1 ‘Gladni smo na tri jezika!’
References
2 Enacting Boundaries
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Dayton Peace Accords: Boundaries as Solution?
2.3 Conceptualizing Borders and Boundaries
2.4 International Relations: From Borders to Boundaries?
2.5 Making (Violent?) Boundaries
2.6 Enacting Boundaries
2.7 Conclusion
References
3 The Place(s) of Everyday and Everyday Places
3.1 Introduction
3.2 An Invitation to Look at the Everyday
3.3 Conceptualizing the Everyday
3.3.1 Four Prevalent Conceptions of the Everyday and Its Critic
3.4 The International as Everyday
3.5 Everyday Places
3.5.1 Displacement, Estrangement, Curiosity
3.5.2 Snippets as Method
3.5.3 On Sites and Places
3.5.4 Localizing Research
3.6 Conclusion
References
4 Politics of (Im)mobility (or Everyday Practices Around a Coach Station)
4.1 Dobrinja/Istočno Sarajevo
4.2 Imagining Boundaries (or, How Boundaries Came to Be)
4.3 Drawing, Redrawing, Demarcating
4.4 (Im)mobility, Crossing
4.4.1 Taxis’ Tactics: Coping with Bordering Practices
4.5 Boundary Zone (or, a Meeting Place?)
4.6 Everyday Places as Boundary Enactments
4.7 Polysemic Boundaries
4.8 Conclusion
References
5 Boundary Displacement and Displacement as Boundary (or a Saturday Afternoon in a Kafana)
5.1 Introduction: Placing Mostar
5.2 What Boundary? (or, a Short Story of the Bulevar)
5.2.1 The Bulevar as a Frontline
5.2.2 Dayton Divisions and Displacements
5.3 The ‘Invisible Boundary’ or, ‘Boundaries Are on People’s Head’
5.3.1 Destruction and Renovation
5.3.2 Boundary Enactments at the Bulevar
5.3.3 Beyond Administrative Integration: Attempts in Everyday Life
5.3.4 Polysemy of the Lived Space
5.4 Displacing Boundaries at Boemi Kafana: Alternative Spatiotemporal Categories
5.5 Inventing Places: Disrupting the ‘Divided City’
5.6 Conclusion
References
6 ‘Meeting at BBI’ (or, on Shopping Malls, the ‘Local’ and the ‘International’)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Meeting Points
6.3 (Re)Inventing the Square
6.4 The Politics Behind ‘Non-places’
6.5 The International and/in the City
6.6 Conclusion
References
7 Conclusion
Reference
Bibliography
Index
