War by Other Means: Cultural Policy and the Politics of Corporate Consociation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fontana, Giuditta

doi:10.1080/13537113.2013.847601

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“…Instead the museum and cultural institutions that emphasize the preservation and enclavization of cultures and national interests seem to flourish (cf. Fontana 2013).…”

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“…12 Pavkovic (2000) argues that the Republic of Srpska has not fully accepted the central government of BiH and its efforts to establish an all-embracing national identity of BiH. Cor-Culture Unbound, Volume 7, 2015 [316] respondingly, Fontana (2013) points out that the political representatives of the Republic of Srpska have emphasized the importance of the protection of the cultural and national heritage, and the monuments of the Republic of Srpska, but rejected the financing of the common national monuments of BiH. This is not surprising, considering that the National Museum of BiH has neglected BiH-Serbian ethno-cultural heritage and the Republic of Srpska's interpretation of the past and has made an analogy between the genocide in World War II and the misdeeds committed by the BiH-Serbian army during the war in the 1990s.…”

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(Re)Shaping History in Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museums

Lozic

2015

Cult. Unbound

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The current article explores how political changes in the past 130 years have shaped and reshaped three major museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The overall aim is to describe structural processes of national museum building in BiH and the ways the museological representation of history is connected to state and nation making and to political transitions and crises. The analysed museums are the National Museum of BiH, the History Museum of BiH, and the Museum of the Republic of Srpska. The source material analysed consists of the directories and the titles of exhibitions; secondary material, which describes previous exhibitions; and virtual museum tours. The article illustrates that during the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which established the National Museum in 1888, the museum played an important part in the representation of Bosnian identity (bosnjastvo). After World War II, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, all three analysed museums were summoned to interpret the past in accordance with the guidelines of the communist regime. Since the 1990s, a highly ethnicized process of identity building and of the musealization of heritage, and history permeates all three museums analysed here. When it comes to the central exhibition-themes following the 1990s war, one could conclude that whereas the National Museum and the History Museum highlight the recent creation of an independent BiH and ostracize BIH-Serbs, the Museum of the Republic of Srpska asserts the ostensible distinctiveness of the Republic of Srpska and excludes the narratives about BiH as a unified and independent nation-state. If an agreement about the future of BiH and its history is to be reached, a step towards multi-vocal historical narratives has to be made from both sides.

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“…Instead the museum and cultural institutions that emphasize the preservation and enclavization of cultures and national interests seem to flourish (cf. Fontana 2013).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reshaping the Narratives In The Museum Spaces The National Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)Shaping History in Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museums

Lozic

2015

Cult. Unbound

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“…Here it is reported that formerly Yugoslav citizens feeling former in the present -a definition of trauma -are currently suffering through the devastating consequences of a twenty-year-old experiment in political, social, and economic engineering -after the collapse of a socialist Yugoslavia -known as 'transition' (see Arsenijević, 2011Arsenijević, , 2014Horvat and Štiks, 2015; see also Fontana, 2013). Yet, as this article goes on to describe, perhaps no other post-socialist region in the world can claim to be in such a period of dramatic change and resistance to the 'transition' period post-1989 than the post-socialist Balkan states.…”

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“…In 2014 to openly question the 'transition' to capitalism became commonplace in Yugoslavia's new states. Resistance sprang from Zagreb to Ljubljana, from Skopje to Sarajevo, as popular movements across the region responded to two common enemies, rapacious neoliberal capitalism and the postdemocratic governance of repeatedly corrupt and continually divisive elites (see Arsenijević, 2014;Horvat and Štiks, 2015; see also Fontana, 2013).…”

Section: The Rebel Peninsulamentioning

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“…And they sought to retain what remains there were of that older and apparently discredited socialist state, and to reclaim a socialist space in a space of postsocialism. Most of all they sought to rescue the commons, the factories, the museums, the public spaces, indeed everything that the post-socialist 'transition' had in their eyes diminished (see Fontana, 2013). Occupying space, mobile citizen-activists took to the streets and established self-governed assemblies, and resolved to embed new radically democratic or horizontal forms of governance (see Brookchin, 2014).…”

Section: The Rebel Peninsulamentioning

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A new regional geography of a revolution: Bosnia’s Plenum movement

Riding

2016

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This article sheds light on a recent reawakening of radical politics in the former Yugoslavia. It focuses on citizens living radical politics after socialism, as new groups and movements in the region struggle to embed radically democratic visions of society. Via an on-the-ground regional study the article exposes the endless postconflict, post-socialist transition era, after Yugoslavia, which has for citizens meant general impoverishment, deindustrialisation, mass unemployment, and living under a post-democratic governance of divisive and corrupt elites. Out of this desert of post-socialism a form of horizontal democracy emerged called Plenum, the most radical experiment in non-institutional politics that can be found across the Balkans since the collapse of Yugoslavia.

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Letting Nature Swallow the Past: Politics, Memory, and Abandoned Monuments in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dougherty

2019

Nationalities Papers

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During the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the built physical landscape and places of cultural heritage were deliberately targeted and destroyed as part of the strategy of ethnic cleansing. The 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement recognized the potential for cultural heritage to contribute to postwar reconciliation and rebuilding; Annex 8 established a commission to preserve national monuments. This paper examines the politics of cultural heritage in post-Dayton Bosnia and the ways in which it has been (ab)used to propagate a narrow, exclusivist identity. It focuses on the struggles to control the Commission to Preserve National Monuments as well as the fates of two monuments in particular—Vraca Memorial Park and the Partisans’ Memorial Cemetery—whose abandonment signifies the wider struggles over memory and identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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War by Other Means: Cultural Policy and the Politics of Corporate Consociation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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(Re)Shaping History in Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museums

(Re)Shaping History in Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museums

A new regional geography of a revolution: Bosnia’s Plenum movement

Letting Nature Swallow the Past: Politics, Memory, and Abandoned Monuments in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

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