Making Sense of Ruins
Architectural Reconstruction and Collective Memory in Belgrade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gruia Bădescu (0000-0003-0180-8960, University of Konstanz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 182-197 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2018.42 |
| OpenAlex | W2941769789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 57 |
Fifteen years after the 1999 NATO bombings, a number of emblematic buildings in Belgrade still lie in ruins and are at the center of debates surrounding their reconstruction. This article examines the collective memory and narratives of the NATO bombings through a spatial lens, looking at how architectural discourses of reconstruction relate to multiple understandings and narratives of the bombings themselves. It focuses on how architects in Belgrade discuss and envision the reconstruction of buildings such as the Generalštab in relationship to the collective memories of political violence and war. The article explores the continuum between calls for full restoration and memorialization, by discussing how architects relate to the bombing of 1999 on personal and professional levels, and how narratives of the bombing influence architectural visions for the reconstruction itself. All in all, the article argues that architectural reconstruction, collective memory, and national identity shape each other. On the one hand, reconstruction responds to collective memory as architects make sense of the collective memory of war; on the other hand, reconstructed urban space reshapes memory by creating a new cadre matériel for remembrance
Aesthetics · Art · Collective identity · Collective memory · Identity (music · Literature · Memorialization · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Visual arts · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
From Memory to Reality
Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing
When We Say Post-Industrial – We Mean Ruins
The Making of 24 March. Commemorations of the 1999 Nato Bombing in Serbia, 1999–2019
Malware of history
What’s done is done”
The City as a World in Common
From Politicization to Vigilance
Foreign policy and physical sites of memory
Making Cultural Values out of Urban Ruins
The historic city of Benghazi in Libya
Reversing displacement
Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans
Urban Geopolitics in ’Ordinary’ and ’Contested’ Cities
A deconstruction story
Jaffa's contested heritage trails
The Making of Post-Post-Soviet Ruins
Disappearance 'in motion
The Past is a Foreign Country
The texture of memory
The Body of War
Present Pasts
Iron Curtains
The Post-Socialist City
Memory, History, Forgetting
Memory, Individual and Collective
Non-Representational Theory
Public Art Controversy
The Ghosts of Berlin
Memory claims and memory constraints. (Re)negotiating statehood and identities in Serbia
Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial
Locating Urban Conflicts
Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans
Cities, War, and Terrorism
On Collective Memory
People and things in the ethnography of borders
Reassembling the Social
Serbia After the Criminal Past
A shell of memory
Alternative calendars and memory work in Serbia
Nostalgia for Ruins
Tourism and the ‘martyred city’
Branding Post-War Sarajevo
The Serbian Bastille”
The city in our hands’
Collective Guilt, Collective Responsibility and the Serbs
Monuments, Memorials, and the Politics of Memory
Landscapes of Postmodernity
National, un-national
Mediating international and domestic demands
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Authenticity on the Ground
Staging the past
Ethnic conflict and war crimes in the Balkans
Monumental Politics
Dealing with the contested past in Serbia
La ruine de l'en-attendant
The streets of Beograd. Urban space and protest identities in Serbia
The Ghosts of Industrial Ruins
Staging the past
Memory and place
Post-totalitarian national identity
Belonging, memory and the politics of planning in Israel
Victims, Underdogs and Rebels
Imperial Debris
Affective spaces, melancholic objects
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |