Urban Memory

History and Amnesia in the Modern City
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-33406-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of sociology, architectural and art history, psychoanalysis, culture and critical theory. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, images, maps and specially commissioned artwork, this work applies a critical and creative approach to existing theories of urban memory, and examines how these ideas are actualised in the forms of the built environment in the modernist and post-industrial city.

A particular area of focus is post-industrial Manchester, but the book also includes studies of current-day Singapore, New York after 9/11, modern museums in industrial gallery spaces, the writings of Paul Auster and W.G. Sebald, memorials built in concrete, and contemporary art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crinson, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations, Illustration credits, Notes on contributors, Urban memory – an introduction, Acknowledgements, 1. Trauma and memory in the city: from Auster to Austerlitz, 2. Urban memory/suburban oblivion, 3. Clocking off in Ancoats: time and remembrance in the post-industrial city, 4. Concrete and memory, 5. Totemic Park: symbolic representation in post-industrial space, 6. Remembering, forgetting, and the industrial gallery space, 7. The future of the past: archiving Singapore, 8. 9/11, 9. Mnemotechny of the industrial city: contemporary art and urban memory, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Crinson