Ethnic Nationalism in Architecture in Urbanism in the Former Yugoslavia
Wednesday 14 May 2008 10.00 am
Japanese Room 1st Floor, Architecture Building
Mirjana Ristic
Conversion from Masters to PhD
Since the end of the1980s, after half a century of cosmopolitanism, the former Yugoslavia has suffered the resurgence of ethnic nationalism. A politics of 'blood and soil' has led to violent civil wars in multiethnic republics, fought over purifications of ethnic identity. At the same time, such ethnic nationalism has been challenged by cosmopolitan movements of democracy. Architecture and urbanism has been implicated in these socio-political disturbances through the different ways in which ethnic nationalism has been invested, mediated and contested in built form and urban space. This thesis will explore the destruction and re-construction of built forms and the appropriation of public space in Sarajevo and Belgrade, in the period between 1989 and 2009.
The research sets out to understand the role that such transformations of place have played in the recreation of national identities and the struggle for political power.
Biography
B. Arch., University of Belgrade, 2005
Architectural Practitioner, Research-Business Centre, University of Belgrade, 2005-2006
Ph.D. Candidate, Architecture and Urban Design, University of Melbourne started 2007
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