Belgrade (de) void of identity: Politics of time, politics of control and politics of difference
Bobic, N
Cultural Dynamics 29(1-2): 3-22
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 0921-3740 DOI: 10.1177/0921374017709228Document Number: 297392
This paper examines the complex entanglement of national and international violence and control in Belgrade. In particular, the ways in which the identity of the city has been affected in the aftermath of NATO's 1999 Operation Allied Force as manifest in the hollowness of the unreconstructed Generalstab complex. The notion of hollowness presents an oppportunity to reformulate and reconsider the identity of Belgrade and Serbia as well as proffer an opening towards reconceptualising post-war reconstruction.