ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines four temporal formations through which monuments can be understood. It articulates how the temporal formations of leap, loss, return and delay in BiH monuments relate to the teleology from ‘authentic’ national history to neoliberal free market. The chapter argues that the temporal formation of delay includes monuments that reflect alternative approaches. But rather than see this as a nationalist/non-nationalist binary, it also argues that delay monuments operate as a critical mimesis of Western paradigms of commemoration that produce an entirely different picture of social reality. The chapter approaches transition as an ideology whose interpretative schema is articulated in temporal terms. It frames historical events through a series of ‘zero hours’: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the onset of war in 1991; the Dayton Peace Accord of 1995; and the ‘official’ start of transition in 1999.
