Title The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction : Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages) Series Interventions Interventions Contents Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Affecting presence: Memory, agency and the power of monumental things; Materiality matters; The spatial actualization of the monumental place; The agency of memory; Destruction/reconstruction; Notes; References; 2. Urbicide and the destruction of "bridge-ness" in Mostar; A soulful object; Bridge-ness; Mostar; Urbicide -- re-placing Mostar; Pedestrian acts; Temporalizing politics; Notes; References; 3. Afterlife: Anchoring affect/reconstructing "bridge-ness" in Mostar Remembering and forgettingThe politics of heritage reconstruction; Representational politics; A material anchor -- the emplacement of politics; Monumental counter-framing; A cultural asset; A thickly lived place; Conclusion: intangible afterlife; Notes; References; 4. Skyscraper dreaming: Monumentality, modernity and the destruction of the Twin Towers; A hybrid object; Panoramic views/skyscraper dreaming; A modern assemblage/assembling modernity; Vertical monumentality -- modern and ancient; Monumental hubris; Vulnerability and indeterminacy; Notes; References 5. Filling the void: Embodying the uncanny space of Ground ZeroHaunted space; Heterotopic transformation; Notes; References; 6. Faith in steel: The fragmented afterlife of the Twin Towers; Introduction: faith in steel; Tracing authenticity; Regimes of valuation; A floating monument; Arte-factual transformations -- collecting 9/11; A tactile relic; A body of evidence; Conclusion -- memorial afterlife; Notes; References; Conclusion: Affecting afterlives; What can we learn from the afterlife of monumental things?; Re-placing politics; Politicizing time/temporalizing politics; Note; References Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Case studies Architecture and society -- Case studies Collective memory -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Mostar Collective memory -- New York (State) -- New York Architecture and society. Buildings. Collective memory. SUBJECT Mostar -- Buildings, structures, etc New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc Subject Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Mostar. New York (State) -- New York. Genre/Form Case studies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317353690 1317353692

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