Abstract
This chapter discusses how the post-war ethnic division of Bosnia-Herzegovina is mediated through everyday urban infrastructure in the border zone between Sarajevo and East Sarajevo. It analyses how street names, script and colors operate as tools for delineation of ethnic territories, and how inscription of place identity purified the city of symbols of mix or difference. The argument is that the ethnic division that the war was fought for has transformed into an ongoing ‘cold war’ through different forms of spatial discourse that frame mental barriers that become embedded in everyday urban life and shape people’s actions and interactions in public space. The chapter highlights the potency of the apparently intangible elements of architecture and urban space in negotiating socio-spatial borders.
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There is also a third entity called Brčko district, which territorially is a part of both units though administratively is a self-governing entity (Donia 2006). The Bosnian name of the Republic of Srpska is ‘Republika Srpska’, which translates to ‘the Serbian Republic’. The FBH is further divided into 10 self-governing cantons or counties.
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Also, five of the FBH cantons have a Bosniak majority, two have a Croat majority, and two are ethnically mixed.
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The occasion was the arrest of a Bosnian Serb soldier who murdered the Bosnian-Herzegovinian deputy prime minister in 1993.
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Ristic, M. (2018). Rebordering Sarajevo. In: Architecture, Urban Space and War. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76771-0_6
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