Abstract

This article looks at the landscape of the Old City of Mostar eighteen years after the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge. The reconstruction project took place within broader international peace-building efforts, foregrounding the bridge as a symbol of multicultural reconciliation and initiating the development of tourism. We explore a landscape perspective to reflect on the aftermath of this neoliberal peacebuilding project which created a commodified landscape image, endangering the site as a public space. By disallowing the local community to engage with the reconstruction process, the project limited participatory ways of dealing with the past, but also public arenas for negotiating a shared future. To unpack this, we look at the heritage-landscape as a process and focus on its infrastructural aspects. We aim to outline an infrastructural perspective which helps understand how the future of public space and participation were conditioned by the process of neoliberal peacebuilding through heritage.

摘要

本文着眼于莫斯塔尔老城著名老桥重建十八年后的景观。重建项目是在更广泛的国际和平建设努力中进行的，将这座桥作为多元文化和解的象征并启动了旅游业的发展。我们探索景观视角，反思这一新自由主义和平建设项目的后果，该项目创造了一种商品化的景观图像，危及了该场地作为公共空间的地位。由于不允许当地社区参与重建过程，该项目限制了处理过去的参与方式，也限制了谈判共同未来的公共场所。为了解决这个问题，我们将遗产景观视为一个过程，并重点关注其基础设施方面。