(In)visible Traces: The Presence of the Recent Past in the Urban Landscape of Sarajevo

Abstract

The author reflects on her observations during the summer school ‘History Takes Place – Dynamics of Urban Change.’ She discusses number of locations, which embodied or recalled the memories of war and siege of the city, both those that remained from 1992-95 and those newly created. Based on the concept of the production of space, article outlines the specifics of interventions into urban landscape with either monuments or alternative forms of commemoration.