The great reimagining : public art, urban space, and the symbolic landscapes of a 'new' Northern Ireland
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The great reimagining : public art, urban space, and the symbolic landscapes of a 'new' Northern Ireland
（Material mediations : people and things in a world of movement / edited by Birgit Meyer and Maruška Svašek, v. 4）
Berghahn, c2015
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The great reimagining : public art, urban space, and the symbolic landscapes of a "new" Northern Ireland
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-224) and index
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Description
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, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Interviews with politicians, policymakers, community leaders, cultural workers, and residents shed light on the deeply contested nature of seemingly harmonized urban landscapes in societies undergoing radical structural change. Here, the public art process serves as a vital means to understanding the wider politics of a transforming public sphere in an age of globalization and transnational connectivity.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City
Chapter 1. A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Shared Space and the Material Production of a 'New' Northern Ireland
Chapter 2. From 'Gunland' to Globalization: The 'Space of Flows' Meets Place in a City 'on the Rise'
Chapter 3. Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre
Chapter 4. Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line
Chapter 5. Transforming the Stone: Recasting Derry's Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared Future
Chapter 6. Art on the Frontlines: Civilising 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
Bibliography
Index
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