Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The subjective atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina brings together over 80 personal mappings from people living in a country long defined by outsiders.

Reduced to ethnic categories, entities, and war-era narratives, these people inhabit a landscape where trauma lingers and political inertia persists. With a polyphonic cartography, the volume counters these simplifications, presenting visual voices that show how people inhabit, remember, and imagine this place today.

Created through participatory workshops across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributions comprise drawing, collage, photography, and storytelling. Rather than offering a fixed or objective account, the mappings aim to make the country tangible.

Rather than presenting a fixed or objective account, these mappings express Bosnia and Herzegovina through sensations – the textures of war-scarred buildings, the taste of homemade juices, the ache of absence, and the joy of small solidarities. The publication opens space for critical imagination and shows that Bosnia and Herzegovina is not divided, but layered with entangled histories and resilient futures – mapped from within.