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NARRATING THE CITY<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n URBAN VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST<\/a> <\/p>\n Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires \u2014 Ottoman and Qajar, but also European \u2014 to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cityscapes throughout the region.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BLOOM AND BUST<\/a> <\/p>\n More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East \u2014 and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence \u2014 creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 12<\/p>\n POWER AND ARCHITECTURE<\/a> <\/p>\n Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state\u2019s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the \u201cinvention\u201d of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include \u201cold\u201d capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; \u201cnew\u201d ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Bras\u00edlia; and the \u201cEuropean\u201d capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors\u2019 different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NARRATING VICTIMHOOD<\/a> <\/p>\n Mythologies and narratives of victimization pervade contemporary Croatia, set against the backdrop of militarized notions of masculinity and the political mobilization of religion and nationhood. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe\u2019s margins. Examining phenomena such as Marian apparitions, a historic knights tournament, the symbolic re-signification of a massacre site, and the desolate social situation of Croatian war veterans, Narrating Victimhood traces the complex mechanisms of political radicalization in a post-war scenario. This book provides a new perspective for understanding the ongoing processes of transformation in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PLACES OF PAIN<\/a> <\/p>\n For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992\u201395 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors\u2019 places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity. It is even more the case when those places have been vandalized, divided up, brutalized and scarred. However, as the author shows, these places of humiliation and suffering are also places of desire, with displaced survivors emulating their former homes in the far corners of the globe where they have resettled.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n POST-COSMOPOLITAN CITIES<\/a> <\/p>\n Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PERFORMING PLACE, PRACTISING MEMORIES<\/a> <\/p>\n During the 1970s a wave of \u2018counter-culture\u2019 people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IMAGES OF POWER AND THE POWER OF IMAGES<\/a> <\/p>\n Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives\u2014anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural\u2014the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an unsettling traveling exhibition, and an art fair in London; we explore the meaning of walls in Jerusalem, a Zen garden in Japan, and religious themes in Europe and India. Literally and figuratively, these situations influence the ways in which ordinary people interpret their everyday worlds. By deconstructing the taken for- granted definitions of social value (democracy, equality, individualism, fortune), the authors reveal the ideological role of imagery and imagination in a globalized political context.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EXTREME HERITAGE MANAGEMENT<\/a> <\/p>\n Conflicting and competing claims over the actual and imagined use of land and seascapes are exacerbated on islands with high population density. The management of culture and heritage is particularly tested in island environments where space is finite and the population struggles to preserve cultural and natural assets in the face of the demands of the construction industry, immigration, high tourism and capital investment. Drawn from extreme island scenarios, the ten case studies in this volume review practices and policies for effective heritage management and offer rich descriptive and analytic material about land-use conflict. In addition, they point to interesting, new directions in which research, public policy and heritage management intersect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To view all\u00a0volumes in the series please Visit the Series Webpage<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unlike a painting or a sculpture, architectural sites cannot be work of a single artist. They\u00a0arise from collaborations among historical figures, architects, engineers, bankers, and many more. 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Volume 15\u00a0Forthcoming!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHistories, Space and the Everyday
\nEdited by Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Matthew P. Berg, and Anastasia Christou<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/FreitagUrban.jpg\")
Volume 14\u00a0Forthcoming!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nChanging Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State
\nEdited by Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, and Nora Lafi<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/CliverBloom.jpg\")
Volume 13<\/p>\n
\nUrban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification
\nEdited by Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/MinkenbergPower.jpg\")
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\nThe Construction of Capitals and the Politics of Space
\nEdited by Michael Minkenberg<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/SchaeubleNarrating.jpg\")
Volume 11<\/p>\n
\nGender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia
\nMichaela Sch\u00e4uble<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HalilovichPlaces.jpg\")
Volume 10<\/p>\n
\nForced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
\nHariz Halilovich<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HumphreyPost.jpg\")
Volume 9\u00a0New in Paperback!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nExplorations of Urban Coexistence
\nEdited by Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HenryPerforming.jpg\")
Volume 8\u00a0New in Paperback!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
\nRosita Henry<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/KapfererImages.jpg\")
Volume 7<\/p>\n
\nControl, Ownership, and Public Space
\nEdited by Judith Kapferer<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BaldacchinoExtreme.jpg\")
Volume 6<\/p>\n
\nThe Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands
\nEdited by Godfrey Baldacchino
\nForeword by Mark B. Lapping, University of Southern Maine
\nPublished in association with Island Studies Press, Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n