Abstract
The clear aim of this special issue is to move beyond ethno-national divisions and to show how Mostar – like other ‘divided’ cities – is more than its conflict, nationalism and ultimately its divis...
Highlights
The clear aim of this special issue is to move beyond ethno-national divisions and to show how Mostar – like other ‘divided’ cities – is more than its conflict, nationalism and its division
Most scholarly and media discussions on memory in the Yugoslav successor states centre on what we may call ‘public memory’, as is actively propagated by politicians, historians and journalists, among others. This debate has offered little insight into the ways in which individuals – in our case, Mostarians – position themselves relative to the past. It too paints a picture of memory politics as a top-down process whereby citizens are depicted as empty containers that passively accept these politics wholesale
One central insight I gained during my fieldwork in Mostar was that Mostarians are exposed to changing political contexts but are confronted with their personal past experiences; their reconstructions of the past remain more flexible and situational than those of people professionally involved in writing official national histories
Summary
The clear aim of this special issue is to move beyond ethno-national divisions and to show how Mostar – like other ‘divided’ cities – is more than its conflict, nationalism and its division. This act of renaming ( by Croat nationalist elites) has literally inscribed ethno-national divisions onto the city of Mostar.
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