Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments

In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how...

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Main Author: Schorch, Philipp
Other Authors: Habit, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
Series:Ethnografische Perspektiven auf das östliche Europa
Subjects:
Gdr
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Collection: Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases ›curation‹ from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (344 p.)
ISBN:9783839455906
9783837655902