The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-621-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

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 landscapes in societies undergoing radical structural change. Here, the public art process serves as a vital means to understanding the wider politics of a transforming public sphere in an age of globalization and transnational connectivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hocking, Bree T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City

Chapter 1. A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Shared 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 Future

Chapter 6. Art on the Frontlines: Civilising 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

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hocking, Bree T.
Bree T. Hocking is an anthropologist and journalist who writes on the intersection of art, spatial politics, and society. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and media outlets including Anthropology Matters, BBC Radio 4, and Roll Call, where she was formerly a staff writer. She received a Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast, and in 2013 was the recipient of an Irmgard Coninx Foundation fellowship to carry out research related to the artistic transformation of the Berlin Wall.