03400nam 2200589 450 991046368880332120200520144314.01-78238-622-X(CKB)2670000000594121(EBL)1707829(MiAaPQ)EBC1707829(Au-PeEL)EBL1707829(CaPaEBR)ebr11019570(CaONFJC)MIL726365(OCoLC)903317495(EXLCZ)99267000000059412120150216h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe great reimagining public art, urban space, and the symbolic landscapes of a 'new' Northern Ireland /Bree T. HockingNew York, New York ;Oxford, England :berghahn,2015.©20151 online resource (244 p.)Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ;Volume 4Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-621-1 1-322-95083-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 LineChapter 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 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 landscaMaterial mediations ;Volume 4.City planningNorthern IrelandUrban landscape architectureNorthern IrelandSocial conflictNorthern IrelandNorthern IrelandSocial conditions21st centuryElectronic books.City planningUrban landscape architectureSocial conflict307.1/21609416Hocking Bree T.875407MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463688803321The great reimagining1954419UNINA