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Record Nr.

UNISA996509962003316

Titolo

Curating (post-)socialist environments / Philipp Schorch, Daniel Habit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

3-8394-5590-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 pages)

Collana

Ethnografische Perspektiven auf das östliche Europa ; 7

Soggetti

(Post-)Socialism; Material Culture; Eastern Europe; GDR; Curation; Architecture; Memory Culture; Cultural History; Cultural Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Inhalt/Contents    5  Acknowledgments    9  Introduction    11  1. Vergangenheit, was tun?    31  2. Monuments and Memorial Spaces of Socialist Bulgaria    57  3. Curating Out the Socialist Alternative    81  4. Kunstobjekte auf der Drehbühne der Geschichte    101  5. Re-curated Remains    123  6. Beyond Horseplay    141  7. (Re-)curating Africa    165  8. Curator's Trade in Ideals    185  9. Rehearsal for Lumumba    207  10. Aus Häusern und Containern    237  11. Handgezeichnete Afrikakarten in ihrem Entstehungsumfeld der DDR    263  12. "Verstoßene Soldaten" - verstoßene Helden?    281  13. Curating Socialism? Curating Democracy!    309  Afterword    331  Contributors to this Volume    339

Sommario/riassunto

In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases ›curation‹ from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.