Overview
- One of the first books to bring architecture and the study of space to questions of memory, history, heritage, and conflict
- Describes a visual public history intervention in Nicosia
- Examines conceptual and philosophical understandings of memory alongside evidence gathered from fieldwork and practical strategies for designers and practitioners
- Suggests interdisciplinary approaches for creating commemorative sites with shared stakes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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GROUNDWORK: Revealing Place and Memory
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FOCUS: Excavating Nicosia’s Buffer Zone
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POIESIS: Designing for Emotional Bodies
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About this book
This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration. Offering understandings of the effects of conflict on memories of place, as manifested in everyday lives and official histories, it explores the formation of urban identities and constructed images of the city. Topographies of Memories suggests interdisciplinary approaches for creating commemorative sites with shared stakes. The first part of the book focuses on memory dynamics, the second on Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, and the third on physical and material world interventions. Design practices and modes of engagement with places of memory are explored, making connections between theoretical explorations of memory and forgetting and practical strategies for designers and practitioners.
Reviews
“Bakshi’s examination of Nicosia is innovative in its analysis, rich in its use of data and highly important in the conclusions that are drawn. … The wider literature across a range of disciplines has beenexhaustively researched by Bakshi, as an approach that encompasses maps, advertisements, interviews, art, architecture and literature has been built. … Bakshi’s assessment of Nicosia represents the potential of discovery and meeting within the winding streets of the ancient city.” (Ross J. Wilson, International Journal of Heritage Studies, February, 2018)
“Topographies of Memories is an extremely sophisticated study of how the fraught and complex processes of ethnonationalist conflict—and thus, its repair—work through personal and social relationships to the built and imagined environment. … This beautifully written work is both a study of the material and imagined dimensions of place, and a proposal for foregrounding place as a method for bringing together communities with memories of conflict in divided cities.” (Amy Mills, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 7 (1), 2019)
“This will be a tremendous contribution to the field, written from a perspective that moves beyond current ‘heritage practice’ to an approach that gives great depth to the search for more meaningful and imaginative involvement of community in defining heritage history and memory in terms of the present and future.” (Archer St. Clair, Founding Director, Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies, Rutgers University, USA)
“Bakshi builds upon her rich research and experience as a facilitator of community commemorations in Nicosia to propose practical ways of healing from personal and political urban trauma….At a moment when global citizenship and mutuality in place is increasingly threatened by nationalist, ethnicist backlashes against immigration and integration, Bakshi’s voice is a uniquely critical as well as hopeful one. I know of no other work that brings such rich scholarly, theoretical, and practitioner expertise to questions of memory and belonging in place.” (Amy Mills, author of Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance and National Identity in Istanbul, 2010)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anita Bakshi is Instructor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, USA. She has studied the relationship between place and memory in divided cities with the Conflict in Cities Research Programme at Cambridge University, UK, and exhibited original maps and drawings documenting her ethnographic research in partnership with the UNDP.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Topographies of Memories
Book Subtitle: A New Poetics of Commemoration
Authors: Anita Bakshi
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63462-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63461-6Published: 21 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87563-7Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63462-3Published: 09 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, European Culture, Landscape Architecture, Archaeology, Memory Studies