%0 Journal Article
%T Between ¡°this¡± side and ¡°that¡± side: On performativity, youth identities and ¡°sticky¡± spaces
%A Sun£¿ana Laketa
%J Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
%@ 1472-3433
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0263775817723632
%X In this article, I investigate the performativity of everyday practices ¨C doings and sayings ¨C that work to constitute identities and spaces through different affective intensities. In doing so, I attempt to bridge a gap between Judith Butler¡¯s account on performativity and affect theory by developing the notion of ¡°sticky¡± space that I define as a performative embodied space saturated with affect. The site of the study is a post-conflict city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a place that appears mired in stark divisions and continued ¡°ethnicization¡± of city space. Drawing on participant observation, interviews and a photography project with Mostar¡¯s high school students, this article argues that variations in affective and emotional intensities become crucial in enabling and arresting young Mostarians¡¯ social and spatial relations
%K Ethnicity
%K space
%K affect
%K emotions
%K intensities
%K Bosnia and Herzegovina
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263775817723632