Berlin, Alexanderplatz - Transforming Place in a Unified Germany (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Space and Place
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	Gisa Weszkalnys
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-1-78238-317-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	1-78238-317-4
Barcode:	9781782383178

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