The streets of Beograd. Urban space and protest identities in Serbia

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Serbia, this text explores spatial dimen sions of the 1996-1997 protests against the Milosevic regime. It considers the significance of spatial practices of resistance embedded in the urban s pace of the capital city Beograd, and analyses the relationship between the formation of identities and symbolic practices of protest, by exploring th e role of spatial metaphors such as 'the City' and 'Europe' in subversive d iscourses, gradually shifting the analytical focus from the urban locale, a nd tactics of territorialisation, to the spatial metaphors of 'the City' an d 'Europe', and tactics of deterritorialisation. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.