Topographies of memories : a new poetics of commemoration / Anita Bakshi.
Bakshi, Anita.
2017
HM621
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Title Topographies of memories : a new poetics of commemoration / Anita Bakshi.
Author Bakshi, Anita.
ISBN 9783319634623 (electronic book)
3319634623 (electronic book)
9783319634616
3319634615
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63462-3
Imprint Cham : Springer International Publishing, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (350 pages) : color illustrations, map
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-63462-3 doi
Call Number HM621
Dewey Decimal Classification 394/.4
Summary This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration. Offering understandings of the effects of conflict on memories of place, as manifested in everyday lives and official histories, it explores the formation of urban identities and constructed images of the city. Topographies of Memories suggests interdisciplinary approaches for creating commemorative sites with shared stakes. The first part of the book focuses on memory dynamics, the second on Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, and the third on physical and material world interventions. Design practices and modes of engagement with places of memory are explored, making connections between theoretical explorations of memory and forgetting and practical strategies for designers and practitioners.
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Series Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict.
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Topographies of Memories
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I GROUNDWORK: Revealing Place and Memory
Chapter 1 Introduction
Overview
Memory, Place, Conflict
Visual Research and Mapping Methodologies
Design, Commemoration, and Engagement
Argument and Structure of the Book
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Contortions of Memory
Place, Memory, Conflict
Intergenerational Memory
Cultivated Memory
Urban Mythologies
Image and Memory
Absence
Dynamics
Bibliography

Part II FOCUS: Excavating Nicosiaâ#x80;#x99;s Buffer ZoneChapter 3 Tracing Times in Place
Sites
Mapping Memories
The Everyday City: 1950s
Exclusion Within the Inclusiveness
Common Landmarks and a Common Vocabulary
Hans as Sites of Everyday Practices
The Loss of a Structure of Meaning
The Devolving City: 1955â#x80;#x93;1963
1955â#x80;#x93;1958: Separation of Municipalities
EOKA and TMT Disrupt the Commercial Topography
The Enclaved City: 1963â#x80;#x93;1974
The Blockade and Life in the Enclaves
The Resilience of Commercial Ties

A Line Becomes a BorderBibliography
Chapter 4 The Reserve of Forgetting
The Resource of Place
The Reserve of Forgetting
Dissonant Memories: Within and Without
Dissonance: Delineation
Dissonance: Coexistence
Dissonance: Collision of Memories
Normal Zamanlarâ#x80;#x94;a Place Locked in Time
Returning Memories from Time
Memory, Myth, and Imagined Cities
Bibliography
Chapter 5 Remains of the Day
Abstraction of Memory
Urban Images and Imaginaries
Nostalgic Utopias and Ideal Cities
The Nicosia Master Plan

Inside and OutsideBody Memory and Representation
Spatial Characteristics and Screen Memory
Outside Memory in Contested Cities
Bibliography
Part III POIESIS: Designing for Emotional Bodies
Chapter 6 Modes of Engagement
Critiques and Strategies of Commemoration
Blind Fields
Mapping Practices
Art Practices
Performance
Community Organizing
Alternatives to Abstraction
Bibliography
Chapter 7 Materializing Metaphor
A Political Imperative
(Hybrid) Mind + (Non-Visual) Matter
Emotion and Empathic Engagement

Materials and Sedimentation of TimeConclusion: A Middle Ground
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Timeline of Selected Events Affecting the Commercial Life of Nicosia: 1943â#x80;#x93;1960
Appendix 2: Timeline of Selected Events from 1963â#x80;#x93;1974
Glossary
Bibliography

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