Research
Stari Most (Old Bridge) Mostar
My dissertation explores the relationship between ethno-territoriality and ethnic conflict in Bosnia, and provides a detailed analysis of international peacebuilding efforts following the war. I focus in particular on the dynamics of ethno-territoriality, conflict and post-war reconstruction in two ethnically-mixed Bosnian towns: Brčko and Mostar.
One goal of this research is to develop an account of ethno-territoriality as a recognizable set of practices and strategic aims implicated in the production of ethnic conflict. I define ethno-territoriality as political project the goal of which is to establish an explicitly spatial basis for various ethnic claims (such as identity, cultural rights, autonomy, etc) by constructing certain places as territories belonging to, or appropriate for, certain ethnic categories of people--and by extension, 'displacing' other ethnic categories.
I am also interested in international post-war peacebuilding practices in Bosnia and how they shape ethnic relations, institutional structures and local networks of political power. One particularly fascinating case which I am researching is the multi-ethnic District of Brčko which offers an alternative model of intervention and political organization than that which was established in Bosnia by the Dayton Peace Accords.
This research has been funded by fellowships from the United States Institute of Peace, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the Council for European Studies.
One goal of this research is to develop an account of ethno-territoriality as a recognizable set of practices and strategic aims implicated in the production of ethnic conflict. I define ethno-territoriality as political project the goal of which is to establish an explicitly spatial basis for various ethnic claims (such as identity, cultural rights, autonomy, etc) by constructing certain places as territories belonging to, or appropriate for, certain ethnic categories of people--and by extension, 'displacing' other ethnic categories.
I am also interested in international post-war peacebuilding practices in Bosnia and how they shape ethnic relations, institutional structures and local networks of political power. One particularly fascinating case which I am researching is the multi-ethnic District of Brčko which offers an alternative model of intervention and political organization than that which was established in Bosnia by the Dayton Peace Accords.
This research has been funded by fellowships from the United States Institute of Peace, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the Council for European Studies.