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Urban formations of difference: borders and cities in post-1989 Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2005

ANDREW HERSCHER
ANDREW HERSCHER
Affiliation:
University of Illinois Program in Comparative and World Literature, 3060 FLB, MC-160, 707, South Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The devastation of the historical cities of the former Yugoslavia, perpetrated by the contending parties in the civil war, was regarded in Western Europe as an act of destruction against European cities. However, the cultural rhetoric of the European identity of cities, such as Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, and Vukovar displays a stark contrast with the European Union's lack of political engagement with the future of Bosnia and Croatia. This rhetoric is also diametrically opposed to the collective politics of exclusion of Bosnian and Croatian migrants from a United Europe. These ambiguous approaches to the notion of ‘Europe’ prompt an analytical focus on the concrete, localized and at times contradictory urban sites where Europeanization is taking place.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 2005 , pp. 251 - 260
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2005

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