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Belfast imaginary : art and urban reinvention / Katharine Keenan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keenan, Katharine, author.
- Series:
- Culture, humanity, and urban life.
- Culture, humanity, and urban life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists and community--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- Artists and community.
- Arts and society--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- Arts and society.
- Arts--Political aspects--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- Arts.
- Community arts projects--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- Community arts projects.
- Sociology, Urban--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Arts--Political aspects.
- Cultural policy.
- Politics and government.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Cultural policy.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland).
- Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1998-.
- Northern Ireland.
- Northern Ireland--Belfast.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- Belfast Imaginary depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and perform a new urban identity for Belfast in the liminal time between the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Time, Place, and the Moral Aesthetics of Third Way Art
- An Anthropology of Imagining
- Over Time-Ethnography in Three Acts
- Methodology: Tracing a Conversation on an Urban Scale
- Plan of Work
- Notes
- Chapter 1: In Medias Res
- Easter Promises
- The Seeds of Self-Determination
- Sectarianism and Consociationalism
- Protests and Paramilitaries
- Negotiating a Settlement
- The Post-Conflict Problem
- Re-Imagining and Rebuilding
- The Beginnings of Brexit
- Chapter 2: Third-Way Art: Policy and Process
- Imagining the State-Post-Agreement Policy
- Funding Shared Spaces
- Re-Imaging Urban Space-Regeneration of the Built Environment
- Sharing Public Places
- Funding a Parade-The BEAT Carnival Initiative
- Visions of a New City
- Chapter 3: The Painting on the Wall
- A Painted Backdrop
- The Writing on the Wall
- A New Suit for Tommy Tolan
- Another View from the Bridge
- Process and Product
- Chapter 4: Performing Diversity
- The Long March
- Performing Identity, Performing Diversity
- Making a Carnival
- Third Way Parading
- The Funding Turn
- Big World, Small Town
- One City, Two Visions
- Chapter 5: Stopping in the Street
- Viewing the Murals
- Life on the Streets
- Belfast Reanimated
- The State and the City
- Note
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Interviews
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-550-3
- 1-7936-2812-2
- OCLC:
- 1306057920
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