Violence Taking Place : The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict.

By: Herscher, AndrewMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cultural Memory in the Present SerPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804776226Subject(s): Architecture and society -- Kosovo (Republic) | Architecture and war -- Kosovo (Republic) | Buildings -- War damage -- Kosovo (Republic) | Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Destruction and pillageGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence Taking Place : The Architecture of the Kosovo ConflictDDC classification: 949.7103 LOC classification: DR2087Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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