The New Berlin reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult
pasts and "remembered futures," a place where past, present, and
future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search
for what it means to be German. Karen Till skillfully moves through
the spaces and times of a city marked by voids, ruins, and
construction cranes to search through material and affective
landscapes of intentional forgetting and painful remembering. In
doing so, she deepens our understanding of the practice and
politics of place making - and of how particular places embody and
narrate distinct national pasts and futures, stories of belonging,
and the absences and presences of social memory-work. Four
locations frame The New Berlin: the Topography of Terror, the
much-debated Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Jewish
Museum, and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum.
Through these and other sites, we encounter people unexpectedly
colliding with and evoking ghosts from multiple Berlins as they dig
through social and material landscapes, claim public spaces, market
the city, go on tours, or debate what national past should be
remembered, for whom, where, and in what form. Through a complex
interweaving of field notes, interviews, archival texts, personal
narratives, public art, maps, images, and other sources, Till
deftly describes how these places and spaces uniquely exemplify the
contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity
in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Highlighting an interdisciplinary "geo-ethnographic" and nonlinear
temporal approach to place making and memory in postunification
Germany, The New Berlin introduces readersto people confronting
loss and past injustices amid the construction sites and ghosts of
the contemporary city.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2005 |
| First published: |
April 2005 |
| Authors: |
Karen E. Till
|
| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| Edition: |
/Uncensored Box |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-4011-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8166-4011-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780816640119 |
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