Public Spheres After Socialism
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
144 pages
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10 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2009
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Angela Harutyunyan
Section One: Monuments and Public Spheres
Chapter 1
Peace in Ruins: The Value of Mementoes, Temporary Shrines and Floral Tributes as Markers of the Public Sphere
Paul Gough
Chapter 2
State Icons and Narratives in the Symbolic Cityscape of Yerevan
Angela Harutyunyan
Chapter 3
Public Sphere as a Place for Gifts: Social-symbolic Characteristics of the City-building of Post-Soviet Yerevan
Nazareth Karoyan (trans. A. Harutyunyan)
Section Two: Representations and Discourses
Chapter 4
Cinema as Political Movement in Democratic and Totalitarian Societies since the 1960s
Anna Schober
Chapter 5
Public Space: The City in Armenian Literature
Vardan Jaloyan (trans. A. Harutyunyan)
Chapter 6
You Tell Me: A Topography
Jane Rendell
Section Three: Identities and Topographies of Everyday Life
Chapter 7
Routes through the City: Youth Identities and Spatial Practices in Leipzig
Kathrin Hörschelmann
Chapter 8
New Social Order and Change in Media Landscape
Hrach Bayadyan (trans. A. Harutyunyan)
Chapter 9
Remote Control: Dangers and Delights of Armenian TV Surfing
Vahram Martirosyan (trans. A. Harutyunyan)
Section Four: Public Spaces, Times and Spheres
Chapter 10
Time without Qualities: Cracking the Regime of Urgency
Stephen Wright
Chapter 11
Public Spheres
Malcolm Miles
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