Post-domicide Bosnia and Herzegovina: Homes, homelands and one million returns
Authors:
Gear
id
Tuathail a;
Carl Dahlman b
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Tuathail a;
Carl Dahlman b
| Affiliations: | a Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, |
| b Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA |
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10.1080/13533310500437647
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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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