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The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction - Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York (Paperback)
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The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction - Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York (Paperback)
Series: Interventions
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What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is
its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end?
Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic
force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea
Connor traces the 'afterlife' of two exemplary examples of
monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value
and symbolic significance. In 1993, during the Bosnian war, the
Mostar Bridge was completely destroyed. Reconstructed in 2004, as
an exact copy of the original, this "new Old Bridge" has assumed an
afterlife as an intentional monument to reconciliation. The World
Trade Centre, in New York, has also been transformed since its
destruction in 2001, as a place of national mourning and
remembrance, a symbolic void marking a singular act of terrorism.
Using recent work on affect and object agency Connor considers
their contested reconfiguration as sites of collective remembering
and forgetting in new highly charged political contexts. She argues
for a more expansive notion of reconstruction - encompassing not
only the material and symbolic afterlife of both things but also
their affecting afterlives as they are re-assembled in the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of the way monuments and heritage
sites, even in their absence, become powerful agents of historical
narrativization, this work will be of interest to students and
scholars in a range of fields including international relations,
cultural studies, critical heritage studies, and material culture
studies.
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