Tuzla - impressions of a geographical research
When you travel as a geographer, then the spaces are created through seeing, hearing and experiencing. All perspectives are blended together and presents a mixed picture that can be connected only by the variety and the contrasts. The dissolution of categories and definitions blurred in cultural diversity. The political events are reflected in the contradictory stories of the people and invite the room - blunt here - in a subjective way. The following three experienced stories illustrate this.
Already on the directions from Cologne to Belgrade I meet on the first story. I ask a young man with a Bosnian passport, how would you well from Belgrade to Tuzla. He did not know as precisely as it was never long in Bosnia, and then only ever in Gorazde, his home or not. Actually, even more, because he can never take longer than 10 days, then his lethargy and passivity twisting to mind again that he is to share the same could. Now he was on his way to his Friend in Belgrade, this time he let out a visit with his relatives in Bosnia. Actually, he worked in Switzerland as a computer, but really he feels there are not at home. At home, that's keel, where the wind blows through such a right. We say goodbye at the airport and I do not go the identities and homes of the young man out of his head. Born
In Gorazde, grew up in Kiel and worked in Switzerland - the Bosnian Kiel. Here the stereotypes disappear, take ethnic definitions, here breaks the academic buildings supposedly exact definition of the social sciences.
The second story happened in the bus to Bjelina. The inspector comes to me and speaks to me, if I must change in Bjelina. I do not understand him well and a man of middle age is helpful. We get talking and so it comes out that we both need to Tuzla and we know not both. He comes from Pristhina, where he works as an orthopedic surgeon. This he said softly, pointing out that it was not good to be recognized as Albanians. His best Serbian trying to bring more here. But he really was not Albanian, Kosovar or otherwise not a one, more like both a Serb and an Albanian but prefer a Yugoslavian. That is of course ridiculous to say here, as he knows. The reason for his trip is to visit a friend, a medical instruments markets. The latest generation of prostheses interested him most, because you need a lot of it is currently in Kosovo. We get out and do us good trip.
Politics on television and in newspapers is everywhere in the form of small stories. No story is the economy without social or political background imaginable. This is also a unifying element of the otherwise confused picture.
This is also the third story. I'm in a conversation with an entrepreneur who produces near Zvornik in the Serb Republic doors and windows. With nearly 60 employees it belongs in the small town of Zvornik on the well-known people. This facility He has just opened, because it is a Muslim in the Serb Republic is not so easy to take root again. From the obligation to do out of his home village of something and also because of the tax advantage, he tried again here. Due to the ethnic cleansing, he is also been displaced and had to go to Germany, as many of his friends were killed. Now he is trying here as an entrepreneur, Muslim and returnees in the village to re-establish, but this is not easy. Not so much his faith is seen by the people do not like is that he as a successful entrepreneur from Tuzla here builds a production facility and returnees still is, always makes the most City residents skeptical and envious. But he, he assures me, will the families of his friends give something back and be back at home. How long he considers this currently loss-making factory of, can he not know, but he is an optimist.
These stories lined up in a colorful, present, and past human and sometimes act positively in the future-looking moving picture.
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