Ideology, Political Transitions and the City

A Critical Analysis of the Neoliberal State-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Gap Between Aims and Achievements

“…Donais (2002) argues that the privatization of the public sector was primarily associated with the depoliticization of economic life and thus the limiting of the power of local political elites. As asserted by Djurasovic (2016), privatization should clip the government's role and accelerate the emergence of the private sector. However, the collaboration between international actors and local elites has empowered nationalist parties to control the privatization process.…”

Uloga arhitekture u prostorima postkonflikta

“…Metodologija istraživanja temelji se na pretraživanju sekundarnih izvora -publiciranih studija i znanstvenih članaka iz različitih znanstvenih domena: političkih znanosti, sociologije, antropologije i urbanizma, a koje se bave tematikom podijeljenih gradova. Od prethodnih istraživanja teme urbanističkog planiranja u post-konfliktnom kontekstu Mostara kao ključni izvori korištene su komparativna studija "Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia" [4], koja Mostar pozicionira u kontekstu problematike drugih podijeljenih gradova te studija "Ideology, Political Transitions and the City: The Case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina" [5], koja dubinski istražuje prakse urbanističkog planiranja u poslijeratnom kontekstu Mostara, ne zaustavljajući se pri tom na narativu etnički podijeljenog grada, već raslojava kompleksne i višestruke modalitete političko-ekonomske tranzicije kroz koju grad Mostar prolazi. U kombinaciji s pretraživanjem literature, provođeno je i terensko istraživanje.…”

“…Primjerice, posljednji urbanistički regulacijski plan Mostara napravljen je 1991. godine, dok je novi već dugo u procesu nastajanja, pa se grad planira fragmentirano, s upitnom legalnom potkom [9]. Iako fragmentirani pristup planiranju nije specifično mostarski problem, već slučaj većine gradova u državama nastalim raspadom bivše Jugoslavije, koji napuštanjem razvijene socijalističke doktrine planiranja u post-socijalističkoj tranziciji nisu razvili učinkovite alate planiranja u novom, neoliberalnom političko-ekonomskom sistemu, etnička podijeljenost mostarski slučaj čini još kompleksnijim [5].…”

Challenging the representation of ethnically divided cities: perspectives from Mostar

“…Despite a diversity of topics and methods, this most recent scholarship questions the limits of engaging with Mostar as a 'divided city' because it recognizes how this very label restricts the possibility to look beyond its ethnic divides. For example, in the last decade, Mostar has been approached from the angle of its socio-economic transition to explore how this impacts the present socio-political dynamics of the city (Djurasovic, 2016;Fagan, 2006). Other researchers have emphasized the limits of classifying people according to their ethnicity because of the ways in which identities are conflictual, multi-layered, and complex (for example, Carabelli, 2018;Hromadžić, 2016;Laketa, 2016).…”

“…The Serb community, once forming the third major group, was almost completely dispersed by the war. In 2004, after a decade of failed (international) attempts to foster a productive dialogue between the leaders of these two major ethno-national communities, the then High Representative to BiH, Paddy Ashdown, imposed the reunification of the city, which nevertheless remains contested (see also Bieber, 2005;Bing, 2001;Bose, 2017;Djurasovic, 2016;ICG, 2000ICG, , 2009Soberg, 2008;Zdeb, 2017).…”