Azra Hromadžić
Biographic Data
| ID | 646051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azra Hromadžić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azra |
| FAMILY NAME | Hromadžić |
| SIGNATURE | HROMADŽIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1776-304X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Patchy Internalization
This article explores transnational migration to the European Union (EU) and its entanglements with human-built structures in Bihać, a city in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In March 2018, this postwar and postsocialist city located on the northwestern edge of the country emerged as the newest "hot spot" on the so-called Balkan migrant route. This is due to the city's proximity to Croatia, and thus the EU border, and because of the closing …
Riverine Citizenship
On Being Too Close to It
This essay explores the dominant expectations of “objectivity” and “distance” that continue to penetrate classrooms and academic journals, and conferences and public spaces. In the process, I argue, they (re)produce everyday violences that stretch their slippery tentacles, keeping in suspension those who think, feel, write, and relate otherwise. In order to trace the lived effects of these processes, I focus here on several instances, their artic…
Life in an age of death
The majority of literature on wars understandably focuses on the horrific aspects of war, such as death, destruction, displacement, and trauma. In this article, however, I want to highlight that life in war is not only brutal and disastrous but also is in some respects deeply joyful and at times even fun. This requires that we portray the horrific experiences of death and destruction but that we also ask: What kind of life emerges in these injure…
Navigating, managing and loving Mostar
This Special Issue takes up a challenging task: as the title Challenging the Representation of Ethnically Divided Cities reveals, the contributing authors all question the notion of ethnically divi
Uninvited citizens
In this article I analyze the lived, violent effects of post war and postsocialist transformations through the prism of one urban ruin in Bihać, a city located on the northwestern edge of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The building is Dom penzionera—never completed socialist retirement home. This urban ruin remains eerie, semi-empty and skeleton-like, a shadow and a symbol of the unmaterialized socialist modernity and the perpetually transitioning postw…
Streets, scum and people
Building on more than ten years of ethnographic research in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article documents discourses and practices of civility as mutuality with limits. This mode of civility operates to regulate the field of socio-political inclusion in Bosnia-Herzegovina; it stretches to include self-described "urbanites" while, at the same time, it excludes "rural others" and "rural others within." In order to illustrate the workings of c…
Cannibal states, empty bellies
In February 2014, Bosnia-Herzegovina witnessed its largest and most dramatic wave of civic protests since the end of the 1992-1995 war and the signing of Dayton Peace Accords. Confrontations with the police and the destruction of dozens of government buildings subsequently gave way to the formation of plenums - town hall assemblies - where protesters collectively articulated their grievances against the country's corrupt and deeply unpopular poli…
Citizens of an Empty Nation
Dissatisfied Citizens
This ethnographic and anthropological study documents the contours of professional solidarity among teachers in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia–Herzegovina. The article illustrates how ethnically divided Croat and Bosniak teachers at the first ‘reunified’ school in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina – the famed Mostar Gymnasium – came together to strike together, and to voice their profession-shaped citizen demands. These teachers frequently referre…
"Where were they until now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town
is article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care.I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as…
On Not Dating Just Anybody
This article is an ethnographic investigation of mixing and flirting among ethnically divided youth in the Bosnian and Herzegovinian city of Mostar. Building on more than 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork and my already published works, I focus on how young people at the famous Mostar Gymnasium and beyond engage in flirting across ethnic lines to negotiate and eventually reassert boundaries and coordinates of difference. The article describes n…
Discourses of trans-ethnic narod in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
The processes of peace-building and democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were instituted on 14 December 1995 by the Dayton Accords, which brought an end to the Bosnian War. While claiming their objectives to be reconciliation, democracy, and ethnic pluralism, the accords inscribed in law the ethnic partition between Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims by granting rights to “people” based on their identification as “ethnic collectivities…
"Once We Had a House"
One of the most important goals of peace-building programs around the world is the establishment of a social order that would lead to stability. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this includes a spatial reorganization of people and territory that assumes a fixed relationship between them. This spatial governmentality relies on a set of rigid assumptions about belonging, territoriality, and politics that make ethnically 'mixed' citizens…
Peacebuilding in the Balkans
Sarajevo Under Siege
Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime Ivana Macek UPenn Press, 2009, 272 pp., ISBN 9780812241266 (cloth), £36.00 Sarajevo Under Siege is an ethnography of everyday life in Sarajevo during a
Bathroom Mixing
Consociational democracy, as a political project of passive coexistence and agreement among ethnic elites, has been shaping sociopolitical processes in the world's postconflict regions, including Northern Ireland, Lebanon, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In BiH, this political model, when combined with continuous governance by the International Community, solidifies war-generated ethnic segregation and erodes state sovereignty. Furthermore, the…
Cannibal states, empty bellies
In February 2014, Bosnia-Herzegovina witnessed its largest and most dramatic wave of civic protests since the end of the 1992-1995 war and the signing of Dayton Peace Accords. Confrontations with the police and the destruction of dozens of government buildings subsequently gave way to the formation of plenums - town hall assemblies - where protesters collectively articulated their grievances against the country's corrupt and deeply unpopular poli…
Bathroom Mixing
Consociational democracy, as a political project of passive coexistence and agreement among ethnic elites, has been shaping sociopolitical processes in the world's postconflict regions, including Northern Ireland, Lebanon, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In BiH, this political model, when combined with continuous governance by the International Community, solidifies war-generated ethnic segregation and erodes state sovereignty. Furthermore, the…
Streets, scum and people
Building on more than ten years of ethnographic research in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article documents discourses and practices of civility as mutuality with limits. This mode of civility operates to regulate the field of socio-political inclusion in Bosnia-Herzegovina; it stretches to include self-described "urbanites" while, at the same time, it excludes "rural others" and "rural others within." In order to illustrate the workings of c…
Discourses of trans-ethnic narod in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
The processes of peace-building and democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were instituted on 14 December 1995 by the Dayton Accords, which brought an end to the Bosnian War. While claiming their objectives to be reconciliation, democracy, and ethnic pluralism, the accords inscribed in law the ethnic partition between Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims by granting rights to “people” based on their identification as “ethnic collectivities…
Life in an age of death
The majority of literature on wars understandably focuses on the horrific aspects of war, such as death, destruction, displacement, and trauma. In this article, however, I want to highlight that life in war is not only brutal and disastrous but also is in some respects deeply joyful and at times even fun. This requires that we portray the horrific experiences of death and destruction but that we also ask: What kind of life emerges in these injure…
Uninvited citizens
In this article I analyze the lived, violent effects of post war and postsocialist transformations through the prism of one urban ruin in Bihać, a city located on the northwestern edge of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The building is Dom penzionera—never completed socialist retirement home. This urban ruin remains eerie, semi-empty and skeleton-like, a shadow and a symbol of the unmaterialized socialist modernity and the perpetually transitioning postw…
Riverine Citizenship
On Being Too Close to It
This essay explores the dominant expectations of “objectivity” and “distance” that continue to penetrate classrooms and academic journals, and conferences and public spaces. In the process, I argue, they (re)produce everyday violences that stretch their slippery tentacles, keeping in suspension those who think, feel, write, and relate otherwise. In order to trace the lived effects of these processes, I focus here on several instances, their artic…
Dissatisfied Citizens
This ethnographic and anthropological study documents the contours of professional solidarity among teachers in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia–Herzegovina. The article illustrates how ethnically divided Croat and Bosniak teachers at the first ‘reunified’ school in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina – the famed Mostar Gymnasium – came together to strike together, and to voice their profession-shaped citizen demands. These teachers frequently referre…
On Not Dating Just Anybody
This article is an ethnographic investigation of mixing and flirting among ethnically divided youth in the Bosnian and Herzegovinian city of Mostar. Building on more than 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork and my already published works, I focus on how young people at the famous Mostar Gymnasium and beyond engage in flirting across ethnic lines to negotiate and eventually reassert boundaries and coordinates of difference. The article describes n…
"Where were they until now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town
is article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care.I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as…
Navigating, managing and loving Mostar
This Special Issue takes up a challenging task: as the title Challenging the Representation of Ethnically Divided Cities reveals, the contributing authors all question the notion of ethnically divi
Sarajevo Under Siege
Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime Ivana Macek UPenn Press, 2009, 272 pp., ISBN 9780812241266 (cloth), £36.00 Sarajevo Under Siege is an ethnography of everyday life in Sarajevo during a
Bathroom Mixing
Consociational democracy, as a political project of passive coexistence and agreement among ethnic elites, has been shaping sociopolitical processes in the world's postconflict regions, including Northern Ireland, Lebanon, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In BiH, this political model, when combined with continuous governance by the International Community, solidifies war-generated ethnic segregation and erodes state sovereignty. Furthermore, the…
"Once We Had a House"
One of the most important goals of peace-building programs around the world is the establishment of a social order that would lead to stability. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this includes a spatial reorganization of people and territory that assumes a fixed relationship between them. This spatial governmentality relies on a set of rigid assumptions about belonging, territoriality, and politics that make ethnically 'mixed' citizens…
Peacebuilding in the Balkans
Discourses of trans-ethnic narod in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
The processes of peace-building and democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were instituted on 14 December 1995 by the Dayton Accords, which brought an end to the Bosnian War. While claiming their objectives to be reconciliation, democracy, and ethnic pluralism, the accords inscribed in law the ethnic partition between Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims by granting rights to “people” based on their identification as “ethnic collectivities…
Citizens of an Empty Nation
Dissatisfied Citizens
This ethnographic and anthropological study documents the contours of professional solidarity among teachers in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia–Herzegovina. The article illustrates how ethnically divided Croat and Bosniak teachers at the first ‘reunified’ school in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina – the famed Mostar Gymnasium – came together to strike together, and to voice their profession-shaped citizen demands. These teachers frequently referre…
"Where were they until now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town
is article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care.I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as…
On Not Dating Just Anybody
This article is an ethnographic investigation of mixing and flirting among ethnically divided youth in the Bosnian and Herzegovinian city of Mostar. Building on more than 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork and my already published works, I focus on how young people at the famous Mostar Gymnasium and beyond engage in flirting across ethnic lines to negotiate and eventually reassert boundaries and coordinates of difference. The article describes n…
Cannibal states, empty bellies
In February 2014, Bosnia-Herzegovina witnessed its largest and most dramatic wave of civic protests since the end of the 1992-1995 war and the signing of Dayton Peace Accords. Confrontations with the police and the destruction of dozens of government buildings subsequently gave way to the formation of plenums - town hall assemblies - where protesters collectively articulated their grievances against the country's corrupt and deeply unpopular poli…
Streets, scum and people
Building on more than ten years of ethnographic research in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article documents discourses and practices of civility as mutuality with limits. This mode of civility operates to regulate the field of socio-political inclusion in Bosnia-Herzegovina; it stretches to include self-described "urbanites" while, at the same time, it excludes "rural others" and "rural others within." In order to illustrate the workings of c…
Navigating, managing and loving Mostar
This Special Issue takes up a challenging task: as the title Challenging the Representation of Ethnically Divided Cities reveals, the contributing authors all question the notion of ethnically divi
Uninvited citizens
In this article I analyze the lived, violent effects of post war and postsocialist transformations through the prism of one urban ruin in Bihać, a city located on the northwestern edge of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The building is Dom penzionera—never completed socialist retirement home. This urban ruin remains eerie, semi-empty and skeleton-like, a shadow and a symbol of the unmaterialized socialist modernity and the perpetually transitioning postw…
Life in an age of death
The majority of literature on wars understandably focuses on the horrific aspects of war, such as death, destruction, displacement, and trauma. In this article, however, I want to highlight that life in war is not only brutal and disastrous but also is in some respects deeply joyful and at times even fun. This requires that we portray the horrific experiences of death and destruction but that we also ask: What kind of life emerges in these injure…
On Being Too Close to It
This essay explores the dominant expectations of “objectivity” and “distance” that continue to penetrate classrooms and academic journals, and conferences and public spaces. In the process, I argue, they (re)produce everyday violences that stretch their slippery tentacles, keeping in suspension those who think, feel, write, and relate otherwise. In order to trace the lived effects of these processes, I focus here on several instances, their artic…
Riverine Citizenship
Patchy Internalization
This article explores transnational migration to the European Union (EU) and its entanglements with human-built structures in Bihać, a city in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In March 2018, this postwar and postsocialist city located on the northwestern edge of the country emerged as the newest "hot spot" on the so-called Balkan migrant route. This is due to the city's proximity to Croatia, and thus the EU border, and because of the closing …
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Bosnian (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)