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Web End = Law Critique (2016) 27:2344
DOI 10.1007/s10978-015-9169-5
Elena Cirkovic1
Published online: 9 November 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Abstract This paper addresses the processes by which the international community intervened and participated in the dening of Bosnian identity and the corresponding constitutional framework, as well as the continuous paradoxical tension between the ethnic local and claims to universalism of supranational legal norms. In particular, the 1995 Constitution and the architecture of its sovereignty have been contested through provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights. The analysis is further supported by the discussion of the architectonic structure of the Town Hall/National Library in Sarajevo that has had an important constitutional role since the collapse of the Ottoman period. The paper thus focuses on two sites for construction/deconstruction of Bosnian sovereignty: the constitutional framework and the more concretely visible architectural symbol of the Town Hall/National Library. This importance of a visual and spatial approach to Bosnian realities is carried further by the 1993 Eulogy that Jean-Luc Nancy wrote for Sarajevo, as a site of the Mle.
Keywords Architecture Bosnia and Herzegovina European Court of Human
Rights History of public international law Jacques Derrida Jean-Luc Nancy
Sovereignty Supranational citizenship
Introduction
The collaborative writings of two prominent post-Second World War Yugoslav architects, Dusan Grabrijan and Juraj Niedhardt, observed the role of the Ottoman heritage in the modern architectural expression of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
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1 Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, FEASS A-303, Merkez Campus,
00680 Ankara, Turkey
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Web End = Architecture of Sovereignty: Bosnian Constitutional Crisis, the Sarajevo Town Hall, and the Mle
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(Grabrijan 1983). From their perspective, a solution was needed for the tension in the relationship between the architecture of the Ottoman origin and architecture that would reect a modern socialist society of the Yugoslav period. Indeed, Bosnian architecture has played a symbolic role in the broader processes of construction as well as destruction of national identities, and Grabrijan and Niedhardts study describes the conation among various inuences on the local architectural, as well...