A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Heritage in an Expanded Field
Reconstructing Bridge‐ness in Mostar
This chapter considers the politics of heritage destruction and reconstruction in the context of a very concrete, historical example: the rebuilding of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia. Bombed and completely destroyed during the Bosnian War in 1993, the bridge was reopened eleven years later as an intentional monument to reconciliation, a place through which to reanimate memory of a shared past and spatial history of cohabitation. This chapter traces the ambiguous and complex afterlife of Mostar's new bridge in Bosnia's post‐war present, and the limits of a practice of heritage reconstruction that continues to derive its legitimating power from a materialist epistemology. I argue for a more expansive notion of reconstruction, encompassing an expanded field of relations, and a form of ecological thinking that includes, but is not limited to, the physical re‐presencing of a material artifact.
Heritage in an Expanded Field
Reconstructing Bridge‐ness in Mostar
This chapter considers the politics of heritage destruction and reconstruction in the context of a very concrete, historical example: the rebuilding of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia. Bombed and completely destroyed during the Bosnian War in 1993, the bridge was reopened eleven years later as an intentional monument to reconciliation, a place through which to reanimate memory of a shared past and spatial history of cohabitation. This chapter traces the ambiguous and complex afterlife of Mostar's new bridge in Bosnia's post‐war present, and the limits of a practice of heritage reconstruction that continues to derive its legitimating power from a materialist epistemology. I argue for a more expansive notion of reconstruction, encompassing an expanded field of relations, and a form of ecological thinking that includes, but is not limited to, the physical re‐presencing of a material artifact.
Heritage in an Expanded Field
Reconstructing Bridge‐ness in Mostar
Logan, William (editor) / Craith, Máiréad Nic (editor) / Kockel, Ullrich (editor) / Connor, Andrea (author)
A Companion to Heritage Studies ; 254-267
2015-05-27
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
bridge‐ness , ecologies , animate , agency , Mostar , heritage , memory , assemblage , authenticity , monument
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