Post-reconstruction enclosures: an infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar)

Zuljevic, Mela; Carabelli, Giulia

doi:10.1080/01426397.2023.2239717

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“…This special issue contributes towards a comparative knowledge base on the obstacles to and enablers of heritage reconstruction, management of cultural resources and recovery of societies in the post-conflict Arab region. 1 It builds upon the growing academic research agenda that has produced timely and thought-provoking debates on the future of heritage and culture in post-conflict societies in the region (see Gutbrod and Wood, 2023; Isakhan and Meskel, 2023; Khalaf, 2020; Matthews et al, 2020; Munawar and Symonds, 2022; Munawar, 2017, 2023b; Newson and Young, 2017; Žuljević and Carabelli, 2023). Articles in this special issue respond to the urgent need for a critical conversation about and interrogation of cultural heritage reconstruction and recovery in the Arab region.…”

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Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?

Munawar

2024

Journal of Social Archaeology

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The introduction of this special issue not only underscores the significance of engaging local communities in the reconstruction of their heritage in post-conflict contexts; it also emphasises the necessity and importance of including local researchers from the affected area, in this case the Arab region, in producing knowledge about its rich past. This special issue contributes towards a comparative knowledge base on the obstacles to and enablers of heritage reconstruction, management of cultural resources and recovery of societies in the Arab region. This introductory piece starts with examining the impact of colonial and post-colonial regimes on producing knowledge about the past and how the latter regimes introduced societal elitism in studying the past. I argue that by giving a voice and a chance to local scholars and early career researchers coming from the studied regions (even if they are currently based abroad), we would be taking another step towards decolonising the past by empowering societies and producing local decolonial knowledge about the region’s iconic ruins. Allowing alternative forms of non-Eurocentric (culturally diverse) knowledge production about the past, primarily generated by local scholars, to be introduced, presented, published and promoted would render knowledge production authentic and simultaneously delink heritage from decades of knowledge coloniality.

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Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?

Munawar

2024

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Whose collective voice? Landscape, power, and participation

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Lovie

2024

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Touristic Value of Mostar Bridge: An Exploratory Research

Can Gaberli

2024

Sosyal Bilimler Metinleri

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The Mostar Bridge was built in 1557 by Mimar Hajruddin and continued its existence until 1993. It was destroyed by Croatian artillery fire during the Yugoslav War and the stones used in its construction mixed with the Neretva River, which divides the Mostar region as a natural border. The stones of the bridge were removed from the river by Hungarian divers and reconstruction began in 1997 with the support of Turkey, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary. The Mostar Bridge, which was opened in 2004, was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005. This study aims to reveal the touristic value of the bridge by examining the studies on the Mostar Bridge using the literature review method. Before literature review field work was conducted by the author to see the destination. After the search conducted in the Web of Science database under the title of ‘Mostar Bridge’, 92 studies were reached, and those that were double-counted and articles that were not appropriate in terms of content were removed. In the literature review conducted, it was understood that there were not enough studies on the touristic value of the Mostar Bridge considering its history. It is particularly evident that the bridge's potential for melancholy and diaspora tourism has not been utilized. The atmosphere of trust, peace and tranquility that was disrupted by the Yugoslav War and the collapse of the bridge has also changed the ethnic structure of the region. While the vast majority of the Serbian population migrated after the war, Bosnians and Croats began to live in two separate areas, east and west of Mostar. While the Mostar Bridge creates a diaspora tourism potential for those who migrated and have historical ties to the region, it should also be evaluated in the context of melancholy tourism as it is the most concrete example of war and destruction. Studies to be conducted in the following period should emphasize the alternative tourism types that the bridge can serve and the tourism potential it carries.

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Post-reconstruction enclosures: an infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar)

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Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?

Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?

Whose collective voice? Landscape, power, and participation

Touristic Value of Mostar Bridge: An Exploratory Research

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