Riverine Citizenship

A Bosnian City in Love with the River

By: Azra HromadÅ¾iÄ?

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Hardcover | 10 September 2024

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230 Pages

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Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans, and it has given rise to a surge in hydropower investments unparalleled across Europe. As part of the process, a dam was planned to be built on the Una River, which runs through the Bosnian town of BihaÄ. This prospect alarmed the city's residents, culminating in a protest in 2015. The book begins with this protest, and it explores how the threat of dam construction transformed the seemingly apolitical love of the river into a powerful political force around which thousands of people mobilized: riverine citizenship.

The book is based on interviews with participants, archival research, and over twenty years of ethnographic research. Azra HromadÅ¾iÄ focuses on the tension between ecological sustainability efforts in favor of renewable energy, on the one hand, and citizens' historically shaped, deeply-felt, love for the river, on the other. She shows how the language and promises of green transition can mask the forces of capitalist accumulation that drive this change - whether in the form of building hydroelectric dams or promoting eco-tourism - and thus set in motion another cycle of environmental degradation, social dispossession, and economic exploitation.

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