REKONFIGURACIJA URBANOG SARAJEVA. OD AGONISTIČKOG PLURALIZMA PREMA DRUŠTVENOJ KOHEZIJI
RECONFIGURATION OF URBAN SARAJEVO. FROM AGONISTIC PLURALISM TO SOCIAL COHESION

Author(s): Pavle Mijović
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, Rural and urban sociology, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Sarajevo; agonistic pluralism; social cohesion; urban reconfiguration;
Summary/Abstract: Paper entitled Reconfiguration of urban Sarajevo. From agonistic pluralism to social cohesion, is articulated in two interconnected parts. The first part of the paper deals, based on insights from urban sociology, the social perspective of the city, which is revealed as a peculiarity of human association and is related to a specific form of life. The ethnoterritorial destruction of the city, which marked the 1990s, redefines comprehensive human relations, disrupting the original urban dynamics. Despite this, cities are not reduced to monolithic constructions of the exclusive, but remain “deposits of anthropological memory”, and are tied, in the words of Bogdana Bogdanović, “to the better part of the human being”. The second part of the paper discusses agonistic pluralism and related challenges of urban and political cohesion. We start from the phrase “political Sarajevo”, which, along with other connotations, expresses skepticism about the possibility of urban and socio-political cohesion. The last part of the paper confronts two models, deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism, as models that can encourage favorable dynamics for the development of social cohesion, and we propose the transformation and reconfiguration of conflict dynamics in various forms of social cohesion.

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