Format:
1 Online-Ressource (154 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781841502885
Content:
The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces. Public Spheres After Socialism contests this in light of shifts of perspective in the East and West after the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.Public Spheres After Socialism draws together contemporary experiences from Armenia - an interesting site of cultural and political cross-currents - Germany, Austria, France and the United Kingdom. It reconsiders the concept of a public sphere as a figurative, or mythical, location in which the members of a society shape and determine its values and ask to what extent this public sphere exists or is viable today. Among the ideas presented in this groundbreaking volume are the cultures of public time, everyday memorials, urban reconstruction, film as a dialogic site, and the mapping of a post-socialist city in youth culture.Esteemed academics cover a wide range of issues, including public spaces and monuments, urban reconstruction, film, new media and communication. They explore the major shifts in theory and consider how the dualism of the Cold War has been replaced by the single ideological position of globalized consumerism
Content:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Preface -- Section One: Monuments and Public Spheres -- Chapter 1 Peace in Ruins: The Value of Mementoes, Temporary Shrines and Floral Tributes as Markers of the Public Sphere -- Chapter 2 State Icons and Narratives in the Symbolic Cityscape of Yerevan -- Chapter 3 Public Sphere as a Place for Gifts: Social-symbolic Characteristics of the City-building of Post-Soviet Yerevan -- Section Two: Representations and Discourses -- Chapter 4 Cinema as Political Movement in Democratic and Totalitarian Societies since the 1960s -- Chapter 5 Public Space: The City in Armenian Literature -- Chapter 6 You Tell Me: A Topography -- Section Three: Identities and Topographies of Everyday Life -- Chapter 7 Routes through the City: Youth Identities and Spatial Practices in Leipzig -- Chapter 8 New Social Order and Change in Media Landscape -- Chapter 9 Remote Control: Dangers and Delights of Armenian TV Surfing -- Section Four: Public Spaces, Times and spheres -- Chapter 10 Time without Qualities: Cracking the Regime of Urgency -- Chapter 11 Public Spheres -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781841502120
Additional Edition:
Print version Harutyunyan, Angela Public Spheres After Socialism Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd,c2009 ISBN 9781841502120
Language:
English
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