The Influence of Popular Geopolitics on the Representation of the Culture of (Non)Violence in Post-Yugoslav Cinematography

Abstract

The paper will focus on the discourses contained in the popular geopolitics of post-Yugoslav cinema with a focus on the representation of the culture of (non)violence. Geopolitical discourses are an integral part of contemporary geopolitics, they were created under the influence of geopolitical traditions and imaginations, they intertwine and form the background of all aspects of geopolitics (Zorko 2014). In order to show the influence and connection between popular geopolitics and nonviolence, we will elaborate key concepts such as: popular geopolitics, geopolitics of emotions, violence, culture of nonviolence, culture of memory, collective memory and trauma, post-war narratives presented through popular geopolitics in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, which will be viewed through post-Yugoslav cinematography. The work will focus on post-war narratives related to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina that took place in the period from 1992 to 1995, through films that were made in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia from the period of the end of the war until today. Our goal is to present post-war narratives through films and documentaries, showing how much they contributed to the culture of violence or non-violence. The aim of the work is also to show how film can influence the creation of post-war narratives, as a form of geopolitical content or (popular) discourse, and given that popular geopolitics, through all its segments and ways of acting, regardless of whether it is through the media, magazines, films, the Internet, affects the consciousness of certain social and cultural categories of countries, societies, and finally individuals.