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Violence Taking Place - The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Hardcover)
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Violence Taking Place - The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural
discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the
very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and
historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher
examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular,
Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension
of political violence. Rather than interpreting violence against
architecture as a mere representation of "deeper" social,
political, or ideological dynamics, Herscher reveals it to be a
form of cultural production, irreducible to its contexts and
formative of the identities and agencies that seemingly bear on it
as causes. Focusing on the particular sites where violence is
inflicted and where its subjects and objects are articulated, the
book traces the intersection of violence and architecture from
socialist modernization, through ethnic and nationalist conflict,
to postwar reconstruction.
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