Balkanization and Global Politics: Remaking Cities and Architecture

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Balkanization (territorial fragmentation) is becoming a significant urban and geopolitical pursuit in contemporary times. Countries, cities and regions are ever increasingly voicing the desire for independence and balkanization from the nation or union they are a part of. This monograph generally maps the historical and theoretical emergence of balkanization, as well its more recent spread into fields as far ranging as law, medicine, data and security studies, sociology, architecture and the urban. The spatialization of balkanization is particularly addressed in terms of destruction and renewal through a detailed sociopolitical interrogation of architecture and the urban, including their changing symbolic, ideological and functional forms. The spatial connections between balkanization, violent remaking (destruction and renewal) and global politics have predominantly been analyzed via the former Yugoslav context and the Balkans, however, spotlight has also been directed to the current political climate of the UK, Australia and the Anglo-Saxon geopolitics. The analysis helps in understanding broader emergent patterns of sociospatial polarization across various scales, and in respect to global geoeconomic and geopolitical restructuring. This is particularly important because drawing connections between balkanization, economics, law, media and technology is to gain an awareness of - and engagement with - the emerging implications of spatial remaking and global politics. This monograph is a valuable resource and will be relevant to academics and students interested in spatial politics; including architecture, urbanism, geography, sociology, politics, international development, conflict, and cultural studies. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of abbreviations List of figures Preface Acknowledgements 1 Setting the framework: balkan(ization) and global politics Framing Balkanism and balkanization Balkanism Balkanization Yugoslavia, balkanism and balkanization Spatial role of politics and balkanization Architecture and balkanization Spatial violence and spatial remaking The force of balkanization 2 Balkanism and balkanization: fragmentation, grouping and excess The Balkans Balkanism and balkanization Balkanization beyond the Balkan borders Balkanization and Yugoslavia Balkanism and balkanization as heterogeneity Public space Film Architecture and the urban 3 Yugoslavia in balkanization: beyond civil war, beyond ethnonationalism Dissent and war Alternative thinking to the 1990s balkanization of Yugoslavia Dislocation of Croatia Dislocation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Stability and peace Remaking as falsifying history Locating Croatia Locating Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 Allied operations: present-future partnerships of humanitarianism, peace and victory Rhetoric, destruction and Operation Allied Force Humanitarianism and its paradoxes Spectacle, distance and perception management Technowar and erasure of violence History as referential violence Peace, prisons and justice: history in vacuum Territory, peacekeeping and the Tower of Babel Memorials, victory and victimization Architecture as partnership of peace: balkanization in vacuum 5 Circulating violence: decomposition, dispossession and control The less visible violence Balkanism as excess in Kosovo Immobilizing movements in Serbia Sanitary decomposition and limitless destruction Reintegration via dispossession Coercion, data and militarization of the economy Networks of control: energy and water Reversibility of resistance and violence: transport networks, international loans and DU 6 Territorializations: transitions, thresholds and transgressions Shaping space softly Transitions and historical whitewash: Romani Threshold erasures: Belgrade fairground Privatization and Belgrade’s greenbelt Desocialization and Belgrade Waterfront Balkanism and balkanization: distinctness, diversity and alterity Historical shifts and mixed-use development Gentrification versus balkanization: militarization Balkanization and distinctness: pre and post SFRY Balkanist transgressions and the Mikser House 7 Present spaces, present times: other spaces, other times Present Political tensions of Balkanism, balkanization and architecture Global politics, balkanization and the camp Humanism of normality Other spaces, other times Bibliography Index