Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict)

Acknowledgements
Praise for Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia
Contents
Notes on Contributors
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1 Introduction: Heritage in ‘Conflict-Time’ and Nation-Building in the Former Yugoslavia
	Heritagization and Synchronous Pasts
	Heritage Forged in War: The Reification of Cultural Property
	(Post-)Yugoslav Trajectories
	Heritage and Nation-Building
	Heritage in Conflict-Time
	Heritagization as Semiotic Battlefield
	Architecture of the Book
	References
Part I Remaking the Urban
2 Beyond Yugoslavia: Reshaping Heritage in Belgrade
	Introducing Belgrade’s Heritage
	Refocusing Heritage: Back to Modern Serbia and Shifting Away from Yugoslavia
	Disappearing Architecture? Modernism, Between Heritage and the Abject
	Heritage and Social Movements—Savamala and the Belgrade Waterfront Project
	Conclusion
	References
3 Carving War onto the City: Monuments to the 1992–95 Conflict in Sarajevo
	Introduction
	Memory and War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	The Wounded City: Scattered Reminders of the War
	Heroism and Victimhood
	Symbolic Geographies
	Conclusions
	References
4 Heritage Reconstruction in Mostar: Minorities and Multiculturalism in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Introduction: Heritage During and After War
	The Old Bridge and Čaršija
	Cultural and Religious Sites
	Public Institutions
	Double Minority Syndrome, Multiculturalism, and Heritage
	References
5 The Limits of Affects: Defacing Skopje 2014
	The Birth of Skopje 2014
	Protesting Kitsch
	From SJO to the Šarena revolucija
	Winners and Losers of the Revolution
	From Defeat to Defeat
	References
Part II Rebordering Memory
6 Borders of Memory: Competing Heritages and Fractured Memoryscapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	A Semiospatial Narrative Approach to Divided Memories
	Srebrenica: Memorial as enclave
	Kozarac, Prijedor: Monuments as Threshold
	Mostar: Urban Memory Sites as Frontline
	Jasenovac and Donja gradina: Memorial Sites as Boundary
	Conclusion. A Comparative Summary: Topologies of Competing Memories
	References
7 ‘Seeing Red’. Yugo-Nostalgia of Real and Imagined Borders
	Italian Yugo-Nostalgia
	Seeing Red
	Yugo-Nostalgia and the Italian Minority in Rovinj
	(Yugo-)Nostalgia as a Practice of Memory
	References
8 Long Live Yugoslavia! War, Memory Activism, and the Heritage of Yugoslavia in Slovenia and in the Italo-Slovene Borderland
	Post-Socialist Memory?
	The Politics of Memory in Slovenia
	Along the Italo-Slovenian Border
	Yugoslavia is Not Dead! (It Lives on in Italy)
	Preserving Yugoslavia (Concluding Remarks)
	References
9 Religiously Nationalizing the Landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Bosnia’s Partitioned Peoples and Their Corresponding Territories
	Marking Territories of Dominance of the Religion-Linked Ethnonational Communities
	Manifesting and Contesting Dominance in Post-War Bosnia
	Creating, Destroying, Recreating, and Claiming Heritage: Case Studies
		Creating Heritage: Višegrad (Republika Srpska)–manifesting Serbian control in an iconic town of Bosnia
		Recreating heritage: St John of Podmilačje
		Contesting Heritage: The Medieval Royal City of Bobovac
		Foča: Five Centuries of Claiming, Destroying, and (Re)creating Heritage
	Conclusion
	References
10 The Politics of the Past in Kosovo: Divisive and Shared Heritage in Mitrovica
	Introduction
	The Kosovo War and Its Immediate Repercussions on Cultural Heritage
	Consequences for Heritage Politics After 1999
	The Case of Mitrovica
		Historical Development
		Perpetuating Conflict-Time Through Heritage
	Conclusion: The Kosovo Politics of Conflict-Time
	References
Part III (Re)Membering: Monuments, Memorials and Museums
11 The Njegoš Chapel Versus the Njegoš Mausoleum—The Post-Yugoslav Ethnicization of Cultural Heritage in Montenegro
	Introduction: Reimagining Njegoš
	The Context Behind Contestations Over Njegoš
	The Making and Breaking of the Old Chapel
	Erecting the New Chapel: Suturing Njegoš into Serbia
	The Post-Yugoslav Ethnicization and Nationalization of Njegoš
	Conclusion: Njegoš Beyond the Greater Serbian and Montenegrin Nationalist Narratives
	References
12 The Post-Yugoslav Kaleidoscope: Curatorial Tactics in the (Ethno) Nationalization of Second World War Memorial Museums in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Introduction
	People’s Liberation Struggle Museums in Yugoslavia (1945–1990)
	Second World War Memorial Museums in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina After the Dissolution of Yugoslavia (1991–2020)
		Croatia
		Serbia
		Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Kaleidoscopic Revisions
	In Place of a Conclusion
	References
13 Locating Memorials: Transforming Partisan Monuments into Cultural Heritage
	From Politics to Heritage
	Between Progress and Destruction
	Bracketing
	Local Culture
	Pisak–Pride and Partition
		Local Care
		Monument Under Attack
		The New Context
	Čiže–A Counter-Monument
		Inclusive Monuments
		A Heritage-Hungry Region
		Grief in the Landscape
	Kumrovec: From Political Memorial to Museum
		The Village
		The Celebrations
		Embodiment and Heritage
	Partisan Heritage and Versatile Heritage
	References
14 Vukovar’s Memorials and the Making of Conflict-Time
	Introduction: The Battles for Vukovar
	From War to War: Engaging Narratives of Continuity
	(Re)activating Rankling Pasts
	The Fray to Stay
	The Fight to Return
	Peaceful Reintegration?
	‘A White Cross Sends a Warning’: Memorializing Croat Narratives
	‘Vukovar Will Never Be Bykobap’: Rejecting Unwanted Pasts
	Forgetting the ‘Other’ Victims
	Central vs. Local Control of Memory Narratives
	Conclusion: Memorials and the Matter of Time
	References
Index