Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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Andrew Herscher (Author)  

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While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political violence. Rather than interpreting violence against architecture as a mere representation of "deeper" social, political, or ideological dynamics, Herscher reveals it to be a form of cultural production, irreducible to its contexts and formative of the identities and agencies that seemingly bear on it as causes. Focusing on the particular sites where violence is inflicted and where its subjects and objects are articulated, the book traces the intersection of violence and architecture from socialist modernization, through ethnic and nationalist conflict, to postwar reconstruction. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Andrew Herscher is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He investigated wartime destruction for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was co-director of the Department of Culture of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and founded the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project.
  • Contributor: Andrew Herscher
  • Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780804769358
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 454
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Release Date: 2010-03-25
  • Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Andrew Herscher is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He investigated wartime destruction for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was co-director of the Department of Culture of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and founded the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project.

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