Riverine Citizenship : A Bosnian City in Love with the River.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hromadžić, Azra.

Series:

Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: a Cross-Disciplinary Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bihać (Bosnia and Herzegovina)--History.

Bihać (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Hromadžić Azra : Azra Hromadžić is Associate Professor and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University.

Summary:

Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans, and it has given rise to a surge in hydropower investments unparalleled across Europe. As part of the process, a dam was planned to be built on the Una River, which runs through the Bosnian town of Bihać. This prospect alarmed the city’s residents, culminating in a protest in 2015. The book begins with this protest, and it explores how the threat of dam construction transformed the seemingly apolitical love of the river into a powerful political force around which thousands of people mobilized: riverine citizenship. The book is based on interviews with participants, archival research, and over twenty years of ethnographic research. Azra Hromadžić focuses on the tension between ecological sustainability efforts in favor of renewable energy, on the one hand, and citizens’ historically shaped, deeply-felt, love for the river, on the other. She shows how the language and promises of green transition can mask the forces of capitalist accumulation that drive this change — whether in the form of building hydroelectric dams or promoting eco-tourism — and thus set in motion another cycle of environmental degradation, social dispossession, and economic exploitation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Una River Emeralds: Producing Ecologically Conscious Children in Socialist Yugoslavia

Chapter 2 Traversing the Una: Riverine Ethnography and the Senses

Chapter 3 Life in the Age of Death: War and the River

Chapter 4 "Ne damo Unu!": The Making of Riverine Citizens

Chapter 5 "I Love the Una": On Love and Politics in Multispecies Relationships

Chapter 6 "This tourism will kill us all!": Ecotourism, a Fragmented State, and the Slow Death of the River

In the end...

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-72172-9

963-386-769-X

9781003721727

OCLC:

1436030859