..".presents multiple perspectives with a clear focus, enabling the
reader to apprehend a complex, consequential, and always
transforming site as the nexus of multiple views, values,
experiences, and hopes. Smart, deeply researched, interpretively
sophisticated without being overburdened by theory, this is a real
contribution to an anthropology of urban sites and life." . Don
Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology,
Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid
transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account
of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East
Berlin, the book raises acute questions about expertise,
citizenship, government and belonging. Based on ethnographic
fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers' offices,
citizen groups and in Alexanderplatz itself, the author advances a
richly innovative analysis of the multiplicity of place. She
reveals how Alexanderplatz is assembled through the encounters
between planners, citizen activists, social workers, artists and
ordinary Berliners, in processes of popular participation and
personal narratives, in plans, timetables, documents and files, and
in the distribution of pipes, tram tracks and street lights.
Alexanderplatz emerges as a socialist spatial exemplar, a 'future'
under construction, an object of grievance, and a vision of robust
public space. This book is both a critical contribution to the
anthropology of contemporary modernity and a radical intervention
in current cross-disciplinary debates on the city.
Gisa Weszkalnys studied in Berlin and Cambridge and received
her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
She is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter and
is conducting new research on oil developments in West Africa."
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