TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hocking,Bree T.
TI  - The Great Reimagining: Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland 
T2  - Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
SN  - 9781782386216
AV  - HT169.G72 N734 2015
U1  - 307.121609416 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - City planning
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Urban landscape architecture
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Urban Studies, Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City --; 1 A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Shared Space and the Material Production of a ‘New’ Northern Ireland --; 2 From ‘Gunland’ to Globalization The ‘Space of Flows’ Meets Place in a City ‘on the RISE’ --; 3 Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre --; 4 Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line --; 5 Transforming the Stone Recasting Derry’s Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared Future --; 6 Art on the Frontlines Civilizing 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. Interview Profiles --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386223
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386223
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386223/original
ER  -