ISBN:
9789633866313
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9633866316
Language:
English
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Serbian
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
English edition
Uniform Title:
Stariji i lepši Beograd
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Prodanović, Mileta, 1959- Older and more beautiful Belgrade
Keywords:
Material culture History
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Material culture History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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Belgrade (Serbia) History 20th century
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Belgrade (Serbia) Buildings, structures, etc
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History
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Serbia Politics and government 1992-2006
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Belgrade (Serbia) History 20th century
;
Belgrade (Serbia) Buildings, structures, etc
;
History
;
Serbia Politics and government 1992-2006
Abstract:
"This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Miloševic years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mileta Prodanovic considers changes to the built environment and urban landscape in the city in the 1990s. He covers many visual aspects of life with great ingenuity: shopping centers, unregulated construction and "wild" modifications of buildings, new buildings (broadcasting studios, shops, homes) that do not fit the surroundings, bad taste in home furnishings (camp, kitsch), boondoggles such as the international art center, problematic historical markers like the obelisk of the eternal flame, billboards, store displays, electoral propaganda, graffiti, grave-markers and cemetery memorials, coins and paper money, calendars, beer labels, and even religious icons (and more). All this information is provided with some critique and much implied comparison to past standards"--
Description / Table of Contents:
New forms of sacrilege -- Pathopolis -- Necropolis -- Millennium bug in the graveyard -- Millennium bug in Republic Square.
Note:
Original title: Stariji i lepši Beograd
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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