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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255077303321

Autore

Bakshi Anita

Titolo

Topographies of Memories : A New Poetics of Commemoration / / by Anita Bakshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319634623

3319634623

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 340 p. 55 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict, , 2634-6427

Disciplina

363.69

Soggetti

Cultural property

Ethnology - Europe

Culture

Landscape architecture

Archaeology

Collective memory

Cultural Heritage

European Culture

Landscape Architecture

Memory Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contortions of Memory -- Chapter 3. Tracing Times in Place -- Chapter 4. The Reserve of Forgetting -- Chapter 5. Remains of the Day -- Chapter 6. Modes of Engagement -- Chapter 7. Materializing Metaphor.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration. Offering understandings of the effects of conflict on memories of place, as manifested in everyday lives and official histories, it explores the formation of urban identities and constructed images of the city. Topographies of Memories suggests interdisciplinary approaches for



creating commemorative sites with shared stakes. The first part of the book focuses on memory dynamics, the second on Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, and the third on physical and material world interventions. Design practices and modes of engagement with places of memory are explored, making connections between theoretical explorations of memory and forgetting and practical strategies for designers and practitioners.