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Post-domicide Bosnia and Herzegovina: Homes, homelands and one million returns 

Authors: Gearoacuteid Oacute Tuathail a; Carl Dahlman b
Affiliations:   a Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech,
b Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
DOI: 10.1080/13533310500437647
Publication Frequency: 5 issues per year
Published in: journal International Peacekeeping, Volume 13, Issue 2 June 2006 , pages 242 - 260
Subject: Peace Studies;
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Abstract

Critical geopolitics seeks to deconstruct the constructed objectifications of places as 'territory' or 'homeland' in realist and nationalist geopolitical discourse by remembering the messy spatiality of places as locations of human life and dwelling. This paper considers the Bosnian war and the international community's effort to reverse ethnic cleansing from a critical geopolitics perspective. Developing analysis around the notion of 'home', it argues that the Bosnian war was a war against homes in the name of idealized homelands. Domicide, the deliberate destruction of home, was its prevailing logic, the despoilment of Bosnia's multiethnic dwelling spaces its consequence. The international community's effort to promote 'minority returns' in the wake of the Dayton Peace Accords sought to roll back homelands but this effort at reverse spatial engineering has only partially reconstituted Bosnia's multigroup spatiality.
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