1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466685803321

Autore

La Batut Guy de

Titolo

Fachoda ou le Renversement des alliances / / Guy de La Batut

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Éditions Ligaran, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

2-335-14609-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 pages)

Disciplina

962.403

Soggetti

Fashoda Crisis, 1898

Electronic books.

Sudan History 1821-1881

Sudan History 1881-1899

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Livre numérique"--Cover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788191903321

Autore

Hocking Bree T.

Titolo

The great reimagining : public art, urban space, and the symbolic landscapes of a 'new' Northern Ireland / / Bree T. Hocking

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-622-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

307.1/21609416

Soggetti

City planning - Northern Ireland

Urban landscape architecture - Northern Ireland

Social conflict - Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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