The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction: Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

ISBN-13: 9781032242194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Andrea Connor

Opis

In this volume Andrea Connor examines these two sites, physically transformed through acts of cultural destruction and their contested reconfiguration in new, highly politicized contexts.

Spis treści

Preface Monumental Affect

Chapter 1 Affecting Presence: Memory, Agency and the Power of Monumental Things

Chapter 2 Urbicide and the Destruction of "Bridge-ness" in Mostar

Chapter 3 Afterlife: Anchoring Affect/Reconstructing "Bridge-ness" In Mostar

Chapter 4 Skyscraper Dreaming: Monumentality, Modernity and The Destruction the Twin Towers

Chapter 5 Filling the Void: Embodying the Uncanny Space of Ground Zero.

Chapter 6 Faith in Steel: Authenticity, Steel Beams and the Fragmented Afterlife of the Twin Towers

Conclusion Affecting Afterlives

List of references

O autorze

Andrea Connor teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney and works at the City of Sydney, Australia.