ISBN:
9780367706203
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9780367705732
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 207 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
The refiguration of space
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bartmanski, Dominik, 1978- Matters of revolution
DDC:
306.0943/155
Keywords:
Geschichte 1989-2022
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Post-communism Social aspects
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Post-communism Social aspects
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Monuments Political aspects
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Monuments Political aspects
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Cultural landscapes
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Cultural landscapes
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Urbanität
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Politik
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Symbol
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Berlin
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Warschau
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Urbanität
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Politik
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Symbol
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Berlin
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Warschau
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Geschichte 1989-2022
Abstract:
Introduction: Considering the Iconic Wall -- Point of View -- Iconicity, or What Makes Social Performances S/tick -- The Revolution That Did Get Televised -- Post-revolutionary Nostalgia -- The Death and Life of Great Communist Palaces -- Epilogue: Writing Material Culture.
Abstract:
"Symbols matter, and especially those present in public spaces, but how do they exert influence and maintain a hold over us? Why do such materialities count even in the intensely digitalized culture? This book considers the importance of urban symbols to political revolutions, examining manifold reasons for which social movements necessitate the affirmation or destruction of various material icons and public monuments. What explains variability of life cycles of certain classes of symbols? Why do some of them seem more potent than others? Why do people exhibit nostalgic attachments to some symbols of the controversial past and vehemently oppose others? What nourishes and threatens the social life of icons? Through comparative analyses of major iconic processes following the epochal revolution of 1989 in Berlin and Warsaw, the book argues that revolutionary action needs objects and sites which concretise the transformative redrawing of the symbolic boundaries between the 'sacred' and 'profane', good and evil, before and after, 'progressive' and 'reactionary' - the symbolic shifts that every revolution implies in theory and formalizes in practice. Public symbols ensconced within actual urban spaces provide indispensable visibility to human values and social changes. As affective topographies that externalise collective feelings, their very presence and durability is meaningful, and so are the revolutionary rituals of preservation and destruction directed at those spaces. Far from being mere gestures or token signifiers, they have their own gravity with profound cultural ramifications. This volume will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and social theorists with interests in urban studies, public heritage, material culture, political revolution and social movements"--
Note:
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 185-201. - Register
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