Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities
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- ISBN 9788024635903
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 15 x 21mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2018
- Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
- Publication City/Country: CZ
- Product Form: Paperback
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Following the so-called -Material Turn- of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space--specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national identities in post-socialist successor states across the region, while at the same time the articulation of national identities markedly affected the appearance of these post-socialist cities. Beginning with an overview of socialist and post-socialist cities in recent urban history, contributors trace the post-socialist intertwining of space and identities in case studies that include Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, Chi?inau and Tiraspol in Moldova, and Skopje in Macedonia, while also linking this phenomenon to socialist urbanism, as in postwar Minsk, Belarus.
Jaroslav Ira is a lecturer in the Institute of World History at Charles University, Prague, as well as at the CEVRO Institute. Jiri Janac is a lecturer in the Institute of World History at Charles University, Prague, as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Science. He is the author of European Coasts of Bohemia: Negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a Troubled Twentieth Century.
