An ethnography of the practices of urban planners, poli- ticians, and other community actors in a German community, this book explores the relationship between ideology and specific architectural forms, the role of revitalization programs with external funding in this process, and possible conclusions regarding the future of other small cities in the Baltic region.

Susan Mazur-Stommen completed her doctorate in anthropology at the University of California, Riverside, United States.

This book investigates and proposes that the diverse evidence of human rights violations is carried and conveyed through gestures: from the staging of terrorist spectacles, the performances of legal testimony, and acts of protests to responses of survivors existing on the cusp of invisibility and silence. Embodied evidence forms the core of the study, led through performance and installation artworks (the exhibition The Shadow of a Doubt is documented here). Performance art can enrich the interpretation of events through injecting doubt and risk. This does not replace traditional methods of...