The great reimagining : public art, urban space, and the symbolic landscapes of a 'new' Northern Ireland / Bree T. Hocking.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hocking, Bree T., author.

Series:

Material mediations ; Volume 4.

Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Northern Ireland.

City planning.

Urban landscape architecture--Northern Ireland.

Urban landscape architecture.

Social conflict--Northern Ireland.

Social conflict.

Northern Ireland--Social conditions--21st century.

Northern Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, England : berghahn, 2015.

Summary:

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 landsca

Contents:

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 Line

Chapter 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782386223

178238622X

OCLC:

903317495