Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- The improvised state -- Producing Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Performing Brcko District -- Gentrifying civil society -- Enacting justice -- Becoming European -- Conclusion

At a time of increasing prominence of the workings and judgements of international courts, recent interdisciplinary work has illuminated the deeply uneven ways in which violence is labelled, understood, and acted upon. Attempting to place work in genocide studies in conversation with current geographical scholarship, this paper argues that there are intrinsic spatial qualities to deliberations over whether an act of violence constitutes genocide. Understanding these invocations of space helps explain how accountability for violence is spatially contained, often severing judgement from wider historical or geopolitical contexts. This argument is made through analysis of the build up to, and enactment of, the legal deliberations at the International Court of Justice brought by The Gambia against Myanmar in relation to the expulsion of the Rohingya from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Such investigative work reveals the intrinsically geographical nature of both designations of genocidal acts and the intimate processes of legal deliberation itself.

In The Sight of Death art historian T. J. Clark (2006) gives an account of daily visits to the Getty Institute in Los Angeles to observe two paintings by Nicolas Poussin: Landscape with a Calm and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake. Clark's book – ostensibly stimulated by the fortune of both paintings hanging in the same gallery – is organised as a set of diary entries and its purpose is at once prosaic and experimental. At first glance the book is an act of aesthetic description but lurking beneath is a deeper current of philosophical and political commentary. It charts a journey 'outwards', to the gallery and to describe the paintings' juxtaposed existence, where the nature of the artworks themselves and their changing qualities in the shifting light conditions are all meticulously documented. But the book also a journey 'inwards', where Clark is drawing on the paintings to reflect on his own status and purpose, threading together artistic observations with wider political and psychological analysis.

Im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses stehen die Aktivitäten des Kriegsverbrechenstribunals in Bosnien und Herzegowina im Hinblick auf dessen Verbindung mit den Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft. Hierbei handelt es sich um die Rolle dieser Organisationen bei der Implementierung der Übergangsjustiz. Einleitend bietet der Verfasser einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Mobilisierung von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in der Region mithilfe internationaler Interventionen. Anschließend wird der theoretische Kontext der Untersuchung von Übergangsjustiz erläutert und gezeigt, dass dabei die Akteure der Zivilgesellschaft eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Im letzten Teil des Beitrags wird das Netzwerk zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteure analytisch rekonstruiert, das die Tätigkeit des Kriegsverbrechenstribunals in Bosnien und Herzegowina unterstützt hat. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Lernprozess, in dessen Rahmen die Übergangsjustiz konkrete Konturen gewonnen hat. (ICF).

ABSTRACTThe outbreak of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was widely regarded by the international community as a 'humanitarian nightmare'. Imagining the conflict in these terms ensured that it was non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) and aid agencies, rather than military forces, which intervened in the violence. In recent years, international agencies have been keen to reposition Bosnia as a country 'in transition' while advancing a series of initiatives aimed at democratizing Bosnian society. This article explores the repercussions of these geopolitical imaginaries and their associated policies on the practices of NGOs in the northern Bosnian town of Brčko. Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary of Pierre Bourdieu, it argues that NGOs have struggled to accumulate social and cultural capital, vital to ensuring donor funding and maintaining links with the local state. The author encourages reflection on the durability of international geopolitical scripts in shaping local outcomes in post‐conflict scenarios.