Градски простори од места до неместа, и vice versa: случај београдског Старог Сајмишта
City Locations from Place to – No-Place and Vice Versa: a case of the Belgrade’s Staro Sajmiste

Author(s): Srđan Radović
Subject(s): Politics, Anthropology, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Staro Sajmište; Belgrade; place; noplace; politics of reminiscence; politics of oblivion
Summary/Abstract: Staro Sajmiste in Belgrade is taken as a paradigm of symbolic re-construction of a city place in a sense of culturally and politically determined definitions of urban areas. During many decades of the place’ existence, we are able to trace changes connected with this location as well as values attributed to appropriate transformations, especially so in the most recent time. The public significance of the place has underwent under many phases, from anthropological place to no-place, different modus and contents in commemoration of the place itself- inclusion from the city’s text and (non) recognition of objects and complex as a part of the whole city architecture…All these phases imply to a contradiction of urban centrality and symbolic periphery. Gradual passage of the location into the city’s “grey zone” is determined by a systematic process of symbolic de-commemoration of the locality, derogation of the same as a memorial place and public manipulation, as well as adaptation of the public fund of meanings connected with this place. Building and re-building of certain elements of a real anthropological place and (non) recognition of its commemorative value are determined by certain social, political and economic factors, owned by various discursive potentials.

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