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Herscher, Andrew.

Violence Taking Place : The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict. - 1 online resource (220 pages) - Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. . - Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Place Names -- Introduction: Violence Taking Place -- Part I. Modernization -- 1. A Relic of the Past, Fast Disappearing -- Part II. Emergencies -- 2. It Is Not Only Vandalism -- 3. Warchitecture -- 4. The Right Place: A Supplement on the Architecture of Humanitarian War -- Part III. Afterwar -- 5. Reconstruction/Redestruction -- Coda: The End of Preservation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted.

ISBN: 9780804776226

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Architecture and society -- Kosovo (Republic).
Architecture and war -- Kosovo (Republic).
Buildings -- War damage -- Kosovo (Republic).
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Destruction and pillage.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DR2087

Dewey Class. No.: 949.7103