1st Edition
Riverine Citizenship A Bosnian City in Love with the River
By Azra Hromadžic
Copyright 2024
230 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
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!: Eco-tourism, a Fragmented State, and the Slow Death of the River, Bibliography Index
Biography
Azra Hromadžic is Associate Professor and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University.
