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This chapter traces the gradual ethnic territorialization of space in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. It discusses how competing state projects are expressed through political/administrative boundaries and the symbolic marking of territory, and how these direct people’s movements and form their orientations. It is argued that through a gradual process of spatial (re)socialization, social (ethnic) boundaries become territorial. It shows not only that this is a combination of politically driven behavior and the choices people make on the basis of ideas about familiarity and belonging, but also that such delineations are challenged. It is argued for the importance of longitudinal studies of this dynamics between the political and people’s spatial socialization to gain insight into how borders may develop and take hold. |
