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Urban Monuments and the Spatialization of National Ideologies

While this chapter broadly looks at the spatialization of national ideologies, it also focuses on several case studies that are particularly relevant to understanding how the past, especially a contested and traumatic one, is mediated in urban space. The wars accompanying Yugoslavia’s dissolution in the 1990s remain a focal point of memory politics, geopolitics, and socio-economic debates, and urban spaces frequently reflect the contested memories of the recent past. Not only are the cityscapes of the former Yugoslavia dominated by the legacies of fallen empires and the ambitious socialist modernist architecture from the Titoist era after 1945, they have been shaped by new conflicts and nationalist imaginations. As this chapter will show, the intersection of cities and nations, as overlapping, rather than discrete, levels of political action, makes monuments, street names, graffiti and other forms of memorialization forms of urban media, which negotiate the recent past.

Nationalism, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Vukovar, Astana, urban space

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