Carl T. Dahlman

Ethnic Enclavisation and State Formation In Kosovo

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Bosnia's Third Space? Nationalist Separatism and International Supervision in Bosnia's Brčko District

This article analyses how the strategic Bosnian locality of Brčko emerged as a distinctive geopolitical space during the post-war period. This resulted from the struggle between separatist nationalisms and the international community over the status of displaced persons in Bosnia, but this struggle played out differently in the municipality of Brčko as its status was unresolved at Dayton and for years afterward. Post-war nationalist rivalry to determine Brčkos status through the manipulation of displaced persons provoked the creation of the Brčko District as a territorial condominium nominally shared by Bosnias two entities but under direct international supervision. Drawing upon fieldwork in Bosnia, we develop a critical geopolitical account of Brčko from wartime through the post-war period to the present. The article concludes by considering whether Brčko as a third geopolitical space holds potential to offer Bosnia a third space, overcoming the oppositional binaries of the war.

Graphic Geopolitics: An Interview with Comics Artist Joe Sacco

ABSTRACT Joe Sacco is best known for works that blend journalism with the format and structure of comic books. Sacco’s prior work has considered themes of political conflict, legacies of violence, and marginalization across a range of geographic contexts, including Bosnia, the Middle East, and the United States. This interview, conducted by the authors with Joe Sacco on 16 November 2015, explores these and other themes in an attempt to situate the positionality and choices of the creator of geopolitical narratives in the broader literature on critical geopolitics. We consider the themes of subject, representation, audience response, and stylistic influences, among others, in our conversation.