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Title Public spheres after socialism / edited by Angela Harutyunyan, Kathrin Hṟschelmann, and Malcolm Miles ; editorial assistant, Karen Roulstone
Published Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2009

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Contents Section one Monuments and public spheres -- Peace in ruins : the value of mementoes, temporary shrines and floral tributes as markers of the public sphere / Paul Gough -- State icons and narratives in the symbolic cityscape of Yerevan / Angela Harutyunyan -- Public sphere as a place for gifts : social-symbolic characteristics of the city-building of post-Soviet Yerevan / Nazareth Karoyan -- Section two Representations and discourses -- Cinema as political movement in democratic and totalitarian societies since the 1960s / Anna Schober -- Public space : the city in Armenian literature / Vardan Jaloyan -- You tell me : a topography / Jane Rendell -- Section three Identities and topographies of everyday life -- Routes through the city : youth identities and spatial practices in Leipzig / Kathrin Hörschelmann -- New social order and change in media landscape / Hrach Bayadyan -- Remote control : dangers and delights of Armenian TV surfing / Vahram Martirosyan -- Section four Public spaces, times and spheres -- Time without qualities : cracking the regime of urgency / Stephen Wright -- Public spheres / Malcolm Miles
Summary The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces. Public Spheres After Socialism contests this in light of shifts of perspective in the East and West after the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Public Spheres After Socialism draws together contemporary experiences from Armenia - an interesting site of cultural and political cross-currents - Germany, Austria, France and the United Kingdom. It reconsiders the concept of a public sphere as a figurative, or mythical, location in which the members of a society shape and determine its va
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Subject Public spaces -- Europe -- Congresses
Urban geography -- Europe -- Congresses
Urban renewal -- Europe -- Congresses
Post-communism -- Europe -- Congresses
Public history -- Europe -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Post-communism
Public history
Public spaces
Urban geography
Urban renewal
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Harutyunyan, Angela.
Hṟschelmann, Kathrin, 1971-
Miles, Malcolm, 1950-
ISBN 9781841502885
184150288X
184150212X
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