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4. Architecture, 'coming to terms with the past' and the 'world in common' : post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo

Author

Badescu, Gruia and Pullan, Wendy

Subjects
711, post-war reconstruction, coming to terms with the past, dealing with the past, reconstruction, architects, Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Serbia, moral philosophy, political emotions, responsibility, victimhood, nature of war, narratives of war, new wars, urbicide, urban conflict, place-making, reflective reconstruction
Abstract

This dissertation discusses the rebuilding of cities after war in the context of the changing character of warfare and the increased expectations for societies to deal with difficult pasts. Departing from studies that approach post-war reconstruction focusing on the functional dimension of infrastructural repair and housing relief or on debates about architectural form, this dissertation examines reconstruction through the lens of the process of 'coming to terms with the past'. It explores how understandings of victimhood and responsibility influence the rebuilding of urban space. Conversely, it argues that cities and architecture, through the meanings ascribed to them by various actors, play an important role in dealing with the past. Building on the moral philosophy of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt, it discusses the potential of reconstruction for societies to work through the past, then it engages with frictions highlighted by three situations of rebuilding after different types of war. First, it examines the rebuilding of Belgrade as the capital of socialist Yugoslavia after the aerial bombings typical of the Second World War. Second, it analyses reconstruction debates in the same city after the 1999 NATO bombings, a high-tech operation, framed by NATO as a preventative, humanitarian intervention against a 'perpetrator' state. Third, it discusses rebuilding processes in Sarajevo, where destruction was inflicted between 1992 and 1995 by actors internal to the country, albeit with international ramifications, exemplary of Mary Kaldor's 'new wars'. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork conducted in Belgrade and Sarajevo between 2012 and 2015, it analyses intentions and consequences of reconstruction acts. It suggests the potential and the challenges of a reflective reconstruction, which engages critically with the past, and of a syncretic place-making reconstruction, which focuses on place and its agonistic promise. Its main contribution is to highlight the essential relationship between reconstruction and coming to terms with the past, arguing for an understanding of reconstruction with regards to conflict itself.

Published
2018
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11. Water as hazard and water as heritage: Report of the European Geosciences Union Topical Event in Rome, 13.-14. June 2016

Author

Bostenaru Dan, Maria, primary, Dill, Alex, additional, Mihaly, Roxana, additional, Andreucci, Maria Beatrice, additional, Anghelache, Mirela Adriana, additional, Badescu, Gruia, additional, Buzila, Ciprian, additional, Calciu, Daniela, additional, Diaconescu, Oana, additional, Fulger, Anca Cezarina, additional, Kelly, Mark, additional, Mihaila, Marina, additional, Banica, Cristian, additional, Montopoli, Maria, additional, Murgante, Beniamino, additional, Nori, Michele, additional, Osmond, Patricia, additional, Pietroni, Eva, additional, and Triboi, Roxana Maria, additional

Published
2019
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12. Water as hazard and water as heritage at Spazi Aperti exhibition in Rome

Author

Bostenaru Dan, Maria, primary, Mihaly, Roxana, additional, Andreucci, Maria Beatrice, additional, Anghelache, Mirela Adriana, additional, Badescu, Gruia, additional, Buzila, Ciprian, additional, Calciu, Daniela, additional, Diaconescu, Oana, additional, Fulger, Anca Cezarina, additional, Kelly, Mark, additional, Mihaila, Marina, additional, Banica, Cristian, additional, Montopoli, Mario, additional, Murgante, Beniamino, additional, Osmond, Patricia, additional, Pietroni, Eva, additional, and Triboi, Roxana Maria, additional

Published
2019
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14. Architects as Memory Actors: Ruins, Reconstructions, and Memorials in Belgrade

Author

Bădescu, Gruia

Subjects
architects, memory, memorials, ruins, reconstruction, belgrade, Political science, Social Sciences
Abstract

This article examines the reshaping of Belgrade’s memorial landscape after the Second World War and after the 1999 NATO bombings, with a focus on the role of architects. As such, the paper shifts the scale of memory debates in two ways: first, from the national to the urban; second, from ‘classical’ memory entrepreneurs of the political realm to city makers, usually perceived as ‘technical’ actors, but, as the paper argues, in fact relevant memory actors both through the way they influence sites of memory and through memory debates. The article places the engagement of architects with narratives of heroism and victimhood in Serbia in a historical perspective, examining the shift in memorialisation after the Second World War. It then discusses the hesitant approaches on engaging with ruins of the 1999 NATO bombing, highlighting frictions between various actors in the Generalštab debate. Finally, it analyses the distinctive memorial engagement with the ruins of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) building by examining the bottom-up process of the competition for the RTS memorial. The article highlights that, even if not intentionally or by embracing memory-work, architecture and architects play a role in memory processes, while deeply enmeshed in constellations of political and economic power.

Published
2021
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15. Water as hazard and water as heritage at Spazi Aperti exhibition in Rome.

Author

Dan, Maria Bostenaru, Mihaly, Roxana, Andreucci, Maria Beatrice, Anghelache, Mirela Adriana, Badescu, Gruia, Buzila, Ciprian, Calciu, Daniela, Diaconescu, Oana, Fulger, Anca Cezarina, Kelly, Mark, Mihaila, Marina, Banica, Cristian, Montopoli, Mario, Murgante, Beniamino, Osmond, Patricia, Pietroni, Eva, and Triboi, Roxana Maria

Published
2019

16. Water as hazard and water as heritage: Report of the European Geosciences Union Topical Event in Rome, 13.-14. June 2016.

Author

Dan, Maria Bostenaru, Dill, Alex, Mihaly, Roxana, Andreucci, Maria Beatrice, Anghelache, Mirela Adriana, Badescu, Gruia, Buzila, Ciprian, Calciu, Daniela, Diaconescu, Oana, Fulger, Anca Cezarina, Kelly, Mark, Mihaila, Marina, Banica, Cristian, Montopoli, Mario, Murgante, Beniamino, Nori, Michele, Osmond, Patricia, Pietroni, Eva, and Triboi, Roxana Maria

Published
2019

17. Home after Dayton: IDPs in Sarajevo.

Author

Badescu, Gruia

Subjects
*INTERNALLY displaced persons, *SOCIAL conditions of refugees, *RETURN migration, *CIVIL restitution, *SOCIAL history, DAYTON Peace Accords (1995)
Abstract

The article offers the author's insights on the state of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) after the Dayton Peace Agreement. Topics discussed include the rights of IDPs to return to their home under the Annex 7 of the Dayton Accords, the restitution of return and property, and the need to humanitarian authorities to focus on urban issues and the needs of urban IDPs.

Published
2015

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