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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Sarajevo"”.
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Muslim identity and Islamic faith in Sarajevo.
… which was carried out in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. For Sarajevo's Muslims Islam provides a "double identity", two ways of conceptualising collective identity. On the one hand Islam distinguishes Muslims from their Serb/Orthodox and Croat/Catholic neighbours, whilst on the other it gives …
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Urban Planning in Strasbourg and Sarajevo, 1848-1918
… how urban planning unfolded in Strasbourg and Sarajevo, two cities that were at once peripheral to, and politically dependent on, their respective imperial capitals. From the 1870s, both cities were conquered, occupied, and, eventually, annexed by a central European empire. They became capitals …
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Context : physical and psycho-cultural : a design for the concert hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia
The thesis proposes a mode of designing that emphasizes the active role that the physical context, including its embedded cultural implications and poetic ideas, might play in the process of architectural design. A successful architectural project in that sense would not only be visually related to …
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Between "Play" and "Power" : performing "Waiting" Under Siege : Susan Sontag's staging of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo
… Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot in besieged Sarajevo, staged amid an entanglement of political, ideological, cultural, ethical and epistemological discourses. The production is discussed in the theoretical context of emerging postmodern aesthetic/political praxis, and in the western cultural …
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(Im)possibilities of building community and negotiating belonging in institutional theatre during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia: a comparative study of cases from Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade
… a comparative study of nine cases from Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Zagreb, I aim to understand how notions of community and belonging are interpreted in each city and how mainstream cultural establishments negotiate, resist, or conform to the hegemonic political projects of belonging and community …
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Architecture, ‘coming to terms with the past’ and the ‘world in common’: Post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo
… Third, it discusses rebuilding processes in Sarajevo, where destruction was inflicted between 1992 and 1995 by actors internal to the country, albeit with international ramifications, exemplary of Mary Kaldor’s ‘new wars’. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork conducted in Belgrade and …
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Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
… her life’s work in a fire during the siege of Sarajevo. Part One, presented in the creative paper, is set in Sarajevo and depicts Zora’s experience of the first ten months of the siege. Part Two is set in England: Zora recollects her escape from Sarajevo, and waits for her asylum claim to be …
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The shaping Shaikh: an ethnographic inquiry into the role of the Shaikh in the adaptation of Naqshbandi Sufism in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
… of living Naqshbandi Sufi practitioners in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its epistemology presumes that a nuanced understanding of Islam that recognises complex realities and contradictory perspectives requires an examination of its embodied form. As a result, this research project …
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Did Sarajevo's Multiethnic Spatiality Survive?: A Study of a Residential Building in the City through War and Peace
Sarajevo’s longstanding image has been one of a functioning multiethnic spatiality where diverse identities harmoniously co-exist and share common public spaces in their everyday life. The ethnically mixed urban population of prewar Sarajevo lived multiethnic spatiality as ‘zajednicki zivot’ …
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Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice.
… and Aberdeen in Scotland, and Maglaj and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through the range of personal narratives, the research shows that personal identities shape the experience of listening to place, through mechanisms of autobiographical memory, informed by the context and history …
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Turecká komunita v Sarajevu po roce 1995
… slova turecká menšina, Bosna a Hercegovina, Sarajevo, neoosmanismus, migrace
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Inspirations and Influences: Popular Composition Trends in the Contemporary Clarinet Repertoire (1996-2010)
… and World Dance; Ruth Schonthal - Bells of Sarajevo; Dana Wilson - Liquid Ebony; Christopher Rouse - Compline; Richard Toensing - Children of Light; Paul Moravec - Tempest Fantasy; John Adams - Gnarly Buttons; Anna Clyne - Rapture; and Scott McAllister - Black Dog.
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Sunergy of Architecture and Sport
… economy. Many of the sports facilities in Sarajevo and other parts of old Yugoslavia have been destroyed. The opportunity exists, to create a complex where the most basic characteristics of sport are show - cased - camaraderie, healthy competition, sportsmanship and above all, human …
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The EUPM and EUFOR Althea missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An evaluation
… and hindered cooperation between Brussels and Sarajevo.;Fortunately, the military component of the EU's crisis management in Bosnia proved to be much more successful than the civilian one. EUFOR Althea was able to secure the situation in the country and prevented the possible outbreak of …
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Mortars to malls: Analyzing the relationship between peacebuilding and urban regeneration through a comparative study of place
… in three post-conflict cities: Belfast, Sarajevo, and Beirut. In doing so, the research aims to answer the following questions: what is peacebuilding, how does it relate to a peace agreement, and how are these implemented in the post-conflict context, especially on the urban scale? How …
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Unsettled Landscapes: The Narrative and Material Capacities of Landscape in the Post-War Croatian Hinterlands
… the Former Yugoslav Republic, Mostar, Vukovar, Sarajevo, and other cities have understandably been the focus of much research on the dynamics of conflict and memory within the built environment. This dissertation proposes an expansion beyond this attention to urban, social and cultural …
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Becoming mixed: mixed marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the life and death of Yugoslavia
… the mixed marriage cases which came before the Sarajevo Supreme Shari’a Court during the 1930s. The decisions of the court in these cases are viewed within the larger context of a cultural civil war engulfing much of the Bosnian Islamic establishment during the interwar period. The hardening of …