| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations |
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Material mediations ; vol. 4 |
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Material mediations ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction -- Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City; Chapter 1 -- A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Share 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 |
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Chapter 5 -- Transforming the Stone: Recasting Derry's Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared FutureChapter 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 |
| Summary |
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 landsca |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- Northern Ireland
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Urban landscape architecture -- Northern Ireland
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Social conflict -- Northern Ireland
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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City planning
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Social conditions
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Social conflict
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Urban landscape architecture
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Ireland -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Northern Ireland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1322950830 |
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9781322950839 |
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9781782386223 |
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178238622X |
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1782386211 |
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9781782386216 |
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