Have you ever heard of the cream effect or witnessed the power of cultural backdraft? Have you watched the slow process of fossilisation or used the tactics of cultural stealth? This work examines the cultural processes of stability and change. It also ena

Presents two contrasting studies of monuments. This book discusses the fate of socialist monuments in Ukraine and shows how the attempts to create alternative post-socialist memorials reproduce a traditional Soviet cultural grammar.

Includes such articles as: Emotional Geography - Authenticity, Embodiment and Cultural Heritage; Anniversaries and Jubilees - Changing Celebratory Customs in Modern Times; The Meaning of Weaving - Textiles in a Museum Magazine; and, Contested Modernities -