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      Architecture of sovereignty: Bosnian constitutional crisis, the Sarajevo Town Hall, and the Mêlée

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      Author(s)
      Cirkovic, E.
      Date
      2016-04
      Source Title
      Law and Critique
      Print ISSN
      0957-8536
      Publisher
      Springer Netherlands
      Volume
      27
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      23 - 44
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This paper addresses the processes by which the international community intervened and participated in the defining 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 Mêlée.
      Keywords
      Architecture
      Bosnia and Herzegovina
      European Court of Human Rights
      History of public international law
      Jacques Derrida
      Jean-Luc Nancy
      Sovereignty
      Supranational citizenship
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/36905
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-015-9169-5
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