Urban Cultures in (Post) Colonial Central Europe
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- ISBN 9781557535733
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2010
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centres have redefined their identities in the last two decades. The author suggests that they are both Central European and (post) colonial spaces and that the locations of their (post)coloniality can be found predominantly in communicative and media processes and their results in architecture, film, literature, and new media. Agata Anna Lisiak analyzes Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw as (post) colonial cities because their politics, cultures, societies, and economies have been shaped by two centres of power: the Soviet Union as the former colonizer, whose influence remains visible predominantly in architecture, infrastructure, social relations, and mentalities, and the Western culture and the Western and/or global capital as the current colonizer, whose impact extends over virtually all spheres of urban life. The cities discussed are not exclusively postcolonial or solely colonial: they are 'in-between' the two predicaments and, hence, are best described as (post) colonial. The (post)colonial and 'in-between peripheral' identities and locations of the Central European capitals complement each other, and their analysis provides a relevant perspective on the transformation processes that have been shaping the region after 1989.
Agata Anna Lisiak completed her PhD in 2009 in communication and media studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Most recently, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in urban studies at the National Sun Yat-sen University where her research extended to Asian port cities. Lisiak has published her scholarship in English and Polish in journals and collected volumes in a variety of fields including urban studies, literary studies, and communication and media studies. She resides in Berlin.
