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The research findings suggest that re-enacting a shared common ground โ most often found in the past rather than in the present โ bears an integrative potential that deserves more attention in post-conflict settings. Moreover, these feelings of fear and discomfort are experienced even among a few participants who openly denounce Mostar's division.
She tells me that she likes going there since she and her group of friends are the ones who "always like to be in the clouds, so we don't have to think about all these divisions". This paper aims to advance our knowledge of the relationships between emotions, affect, and geopolitics. What is crucially lacking in this important body of work on the nexus between affect and politics is empirically grounded research that examines these processes, especially in situations of geopolitical instability and conflict.
In this paper, I seek to address this gap by attending to the geopolitical role of feelings in the volatile political climate of a post-conflict city. Socio-spatial agency and positive peace in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jul Space Polity. Mostar has been divided since , which marked the start of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
