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New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era

The Case of Starčevica, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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In the late 1990s, almost a decade after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina commenced its transformational journey of transition. The practice of dismantling all that remained from the socialist legacy assumed “multidimensional transformations in the economies, politics and societies” in all the former socialist countries (Sailer-Fliege 1999: 7). Therefore, this process of “dramatic economic, social and political change” (Tsenkova 2009: 291) resembled those in the neighbour countries of Serbia and Montenegro, where international institutions, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, pressured political elites to implement “neo-liberal strategies that favour the fastest possible abandonment of all aspects of state socialism” (Petrović 2005: 7).

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Lakić, S. (2018). New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era. In: Ferro, L., Smagacz-Poziemska, M., Gómez, M., Kurtenbach, S., Pereira, P., Villalón, J. (eds) Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18462-9_11

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