Violence Taking Place - The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Herscher is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He investigated wartime destruction for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was co-director of the Department of Culture of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and founded the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project. Klappentext The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted. Zusammenfassung The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence! this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power! agency! and ethnicity are constituted.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Herscher
• Assisted by: Mieke Bal (Editor), Henk De Vries (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2010
• EAN: 9780804769365
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6936-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories