The Great Reimagining
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The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland

About this book

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 landscapes in societies undergoing radical structural change. Here, the public art process serves as a vital means to understanding the wider politics of a transforming public sphere in an age of globalization and transnational connectivity.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781782386216
eBook ISBN
9781782386223
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction — Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City
  6. Chapter 1 — A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Share Space and the Material Production of a 'New' Northern Ireland
  7. Chapter 2 — From 'Gunland' to Globalization: The 'Space of Flows' Meets Place in a City 'on the Rise'
  8. Chapter 3 — Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre
  9. Chapter 4 — Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line
  10. Chapter 5 — Transforming the Stone: Recasting Derry's Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared Future
  11. Chapter 6 — Art on the Frontlines: Civilizing Derry's Ebrington Military Barracks for a 'City of Culture'
  12. Conclusion — The City as Civic Identikit? Twenty-first Century Public(s) on the Transnational Urban Stage Set
  13. Appendix: Interview Profiles
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index