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Accepted Paper:

Neo-Lockeian post-war reconstruction and transnational aesthetic intervention  
Andrew Dawson (University of Melbourne)

Paper short abstract:

Contradictions within the Dayton Peace Accord have created a large property owning expatriate population that struggles alongside other local and international agents in redefining Bosnia’s ‘post-domicidal’ spaces. This paper considers the roles and contextually particular forms of transnational aesthetic intervention in this struggle.

Paper long abstract:

The Dayton Peace Accord (DPA) that brought an end to the war of Yugoslav succession in Bosnia and Herzegovina left a contradictory legacy. It sought to bring lasting peace, by recognizing the division of the country into ethno-nationalist homelands. Contrastively, it also sought to reverse ethnic cleansing by promoting 'minority return.' Central to this was a reconstruction process that placed property restitution at its core. This has created a large property owning expatriate population that struggles alongside other agents, such as locally-based ethno-nationalists, international aid donors, and Middle-Eastern Islamic states, in redefining the 'post-domicidal' spaces from which it was displaced. This paper considers the aesthetic dimensions of this struggle. It highlights how the forms that transnational aesthetic interventions take are contextually contingent, in this particular ethnographically informed case, on the histories of diaspora, immigration and their management in Australia and UK.

Panel P29
The aesthetics of diaspora
  Session 1