Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the
future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the …

The term 'urbicide'became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to
widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on …

For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed,(re) constructed and (re)
negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from …

Since the violent events of the Bosnian war and the revelations of ethnic cleansing that
shocked the world in the early 1990s, Bosnia has become a metaphor for the new ethnic …

Cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are creating new urban identities under
conditions of postsocialist transformation, Europeanization and globalization. Discourses …

Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other
elements that make one group of people distinct from another. Cultural genocide remains a …

Urban anthropologist Kristin Monroe takes urban anthropology in a new and meaningful
direction—the story of traffic in the Middle East, focusing on Beirut. As bombs reappeared …

Since the first signing of the Schengen Agreement in 1985, Europe's borders have been
changing profoundly. New actors, rules and institutions have emerged and transformed the …

In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern
Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It …

For a couple of decades now revitalization of historic urban quarters has become popular
throughout the world especially in many European cities. In some cases the positive …