ABSTRACT
The First World War and the Second World War were epochal events that ushered in new global configurations of spatial modernity that in the Marchlands of Modernities I have suggested could be understood in the ideas of the Nationalist Project and the Communist Project. The collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 was equally epochal. It ushered in a new configuration in spatial modernity. Neo-liberalism sought to oust communism and rid the Marchlands of its ‘evil’ legacy. However, this time there was no sharp break of the kind the wars had created. There had been no widespread destruction of the built environment, or decimation of the populations. This time a modernity had collapsed as a dominant hegemony, but its artefacts, practices, perceptions and conceptions had not been totally discredited or destroyed by several years of military conflict. In Yugoslavia, however, war was a consequence of the crisis of communism. There was, however, a sense of a new beginning across the Marchlands.
