Berlin, Alexanderplatz : : Transforming Place in a Unified Germany / / Gisa Weszkalnys.
A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions...
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Weszkalnys, Gisa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Berlin, Alexanderplatz : Transforming Place in a Unified Germany / Gisa Weszkalnys. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (226 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Space and Place ; 1 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- I Introduction -- II Constructing a Future Berlin -- III The Disintegration of a Socialist Exemplar -- IV Promising Plans -- V The Object of Grievance -- VI A Robust Square -- VII Whose Alexanderplatz? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions about expertise, citizenship, government and belonging. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers’ offices, citizen groups and in Alexanderplatz itself, the author advances a richly innovative analysis of the multiplicity of place. She reveals how Alexanderplatz is assembled through the encounters between planners, citizen activists, social workers, artists and ordinary Berliners, in processes of popular participation and personal narratives, in plans, timetables, documents and files, and in the distribution of pipes, tram tracks and street lights. Alexanderplatz emerges as a socialist spatial exemplar, a ‘future’ under construction, an object of grievance, and a vision of robust public space. This book is both a critical contribution to the anthropology of contemporary modernity and a radical intervention in current cross-disciplinary debates on the city. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022) Urban anthropology Germany Berlin. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110998283 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458355 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845458355 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845458355/original |
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