Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction - Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Connor teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney and works at the City of Sydney, Australia. Zusammenfassung In this volume Andrea Connor examines these two sites, physically transformed through acts of cultural destruction and their contested reconfiguration in new, highly politicized contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Monumental Affect Chapter 1 Affecting Presence: Memory, Agency and the Power of Monumental Things Chapter 2 Urbicide and the Destruction of "Bridge-ness" in Mostar Chapter 3 Afterlife: Anchoring Affect/Reconstructing "Bridge-ness" In Mostar Chapter 4 Skyscraper Dreaming: Monumentality, Modernity and The Destruction the Twin Towers Chapter 5 Filling the Void: Embodying the Uncanny Space of Ground Zero. Chapter 6 Faith in Steel: Authenticity, Steel Beams and the Fragmented Afterlife of the Twin Towers Conclusion Affecting Afterlives List of references

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Connor, Connor Andrea
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138955967
• ISBN: 978-1-138-95596-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Interventions; Interventions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture