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Author Bobic, Nikolina

Title Balkanization and Global Politics : Remaking Cities and Architecture
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Ser
Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of abbreviations; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Setting the framework: balkan(ization) and global politics; Framing Balkanism and balkanization; Balkanism; Balkanization; Yugoslavia, balkanism and balkanization; Spatial role of politics and balkanization; Architecture and balkanization; Spatial violence and spatial remaking; The force of balkanization; 2 Balkanism and balkanization: fragmentation, grouping and excess; The Balkans; Balkanism and balkanization; Balkanization beyond the Balkan borders
Balkanization and YugoslaviaBalkanism and balkanization as heterogeneity; Public space; Film; Architecture and the urban; 3 Yugoslavia in balkanization: beyond civil war, beyond ethnonationalism; Dissent and war; Alternative thinking to the 1990s balkanization of Yugoslavia; Dislocation of Croatia; Dislocation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Stability and peace; Remaking as falsifying history; Locating Croatia; Locating Bosnia and Herzegovina; 4 Allied operations: present-future partnerships of humanitarianism, peace and victory; Rhetoric, destruction and Operation Allied Force
Humanitarianism and its paradoxesSpectacle, distance and perception management; Technowar and erasure of violence; History as referential violence; Peace, prisons and justice: history in vacuum; Territory, peacekeeping and the Tower of Babel; Memorials, victory and victimization; Architecture as partnership of peace: balkanization in vacuum; 5 Circulating violence: decomposition, dispossession and control; The less visible violence; Balkanism as excess in Kosovo; Immobilizing movements in Serbia; Sanitary decomposition and limitless destruction; Reintegration via dispossession
Coercion, data and militarization of the economyNetworks of control: energy and water; Reversibility of resistance and violence: transport networks, international loans and DU; 6 Territorializations: transitions, thresholds and transgressions; Shaping space softly; Transitions and historical whitewash: Romani; Threshold erasures: Belgrade fairground; Privatization and Belgrade's greenbelt; Desocialization and Belgrade Waterfront; Balkanism and balkanization: distinctness, diversity and alterity; Historical shifts and mixed-use development; Gentrification versus balkanization: militarization
Balkanization and distinctness: pre and post SFRYBalkanist transgressions and the Mikser House; 7 Present spaces, present times: other spaces, other times; Present; Political tensions of Balkanism, balkanization and architecture; Global politics, balkanization and the camp; Humanism of normality; Other spaces, other times; Bibliography; Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Architecture -- Political aspects -- Former Yugoslav republics
Architecture -- Political aspects
Autonomy and independence movements
Politics and government
SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Former Yugoslav republics -- Politics and government
Subject Balkan Peninsula
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351667159
1351667157