The Great Reimagining : : Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland /

The Great Reimagining : : Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland / / Bree T. Hocking.

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While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland’s identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue. Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Hocking, Bree T.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City
  • 1 A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Shared Space and the Material Production of a ‘New’ Northern Ireland
  • 2 From ‘Gunland’ to Globalization The ‘Space of Flows’ Meets Place in a City ‘on the RISE’
  • 3 Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre
  • 4 Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line
  • 5 Transforming the Stone Recasting Derry’s Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared Future
  • 6 Art on the Frontlines Civilizing Derry’s Ebrington Military Barracks for a ‘City of Culture’
  • Conclusion: The City as Civic Identikit? Twenty-first Century Public(s) on the Transnational Urban Stage Set
  • Appendix. Interview Profiles
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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