The Everyday Life of Memorials /

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"This book works with the literature of the everyday, memory studies, and non-representational geography to open up a novel understanding of memorials not just as everyday objects, but also as fundamental to urban modernity"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shanken, Andrew M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brooklyn : Zone Books, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Memorials.
Memorialization.
Collective memory.
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments
Public spaces > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Memorials no more
  • Everyday memory
  • Labile memory
  • Placing memory: cemeteries and parks
  • Misplacing memory: memorials in circles, squares, and medians
  • Displacing memory
  • Mustering memory
  • Assembling memory
  • What we do at memorials
  • What memorials do at memorials
  • Conclusion: What is this?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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