10–11.07 ’23
Workshop Subjective Atlas of Bosnia & Herzegovina
🕐 10 - 11 July 2023
📍 Memorial Center, Potočari, Srebrenica (BiH)
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🙏🏻 PCRC team, James Riding
The second workshop for the Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina was organised in the countryside. The landscape of Potočari was charged, engraved in traumatic histories – but the hills provided green perspectives, silence and an abundance of summer flowers. It was a needed space to carry and reflect on our emotions, and work together on bringing the present in perspective.
Our programme was part of the Srebrenica Youthschool organised by the Post-Conflict Research Center. We worked with a group of almost 40 local and international students and young professionals – all engaged, articulate and able to look beyond current horizons. We attended the 28th commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide, which left a deep impression on each of us. We will never forget.
Big thank you to PCRC for hosting this workshop and selecting such amazing participants, and to James Riding from Newcastle University for initiating this collaboration.
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Bosnian-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm
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The Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina brings together over eighty personal mappings from people living in a country long defined by outsiders—reduced to entities, ethnic categories, and wartime narratives. This atlas counters such simplifications with a polyphonic cartography: visual stories that show how people inhabit, remember, and imagine this place today.
Created through participatory workshops across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributions use drawing, collage, and photography to create alternative mappings of a conflict affected state. Rather than offering a fixed or objective account, these situated mappings aim to feel the country—through the materialities of war-damaged buildings, the taste of homemade juices, and the joy of small acts of kindness.
In a landscape where trauma lingers and political inertia persists, this publication opens space for critical imagination. It invites us to see Bosnia and Herzegovina not as divided, but as a layered place of entangled histories and resilient futures—mapped from within.
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ISBN 978-9-46444-802-3
This publication is a result of a collaboration between Subjective Editions, Newcastle University and PCRC
Editor-in-Chief: Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions)
Editorial support: Sana Gobbeh, Anita Karabašić, Paul Lowe, Tatjana Milovanović, Ivana Perić, Theresa Rauch, James Riding, Velma Šarić, Amina Sejfić
Foreword: Velma Šarić
Introduction: James Riding