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Beginning with a brief reflection on the topography and ancient history of Mostar, this chapter discusses historical spatial transformation in the city. The chapter provides a historical context of the city through Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian occupation up to the post-conflict time period. The chapter looks at the city across space and time, and discusses large scale spatial transformation in Mostar. It introduces participant narratives of movement during the 1992–1995 war and then focuses in on the post-conflict staging of the city as divided through the staging of the Dayton Agreement
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Forde, S. (2019). Mostar Through Time: Staging and Scripting in the City. In: Movement as Conflict Transformation. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92660-5_4
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