The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces.
By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

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The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces.
By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

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The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

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Overview

This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces.
By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538118252
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/18/2018
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.89(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Alexander C. Diener is associate professor of geography at the University of Kansas. Joshua Hagen is dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

1 The City as Palimpsest: Narrating National Identity through

Urban Space and Place

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

Part I: Remembering and Forgetting

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

2 Creating a Place for the Nation in Dublin: The Republic of Ireland’s Garden of Remembrance

Kara E. Dempsey

3 Making a Wrong Turn in Tokyo: Yasukuni Shrine and the “Empty Center” of Contemporary Japanese Nationalism

Ronald Davidson

4 The City, Memory, and Ideology in Ulaanbaatar: Inscribing Memory and Ideology in Postsocialist Mongolia

Orhon Myadar

5 Ankara’s Forest Farm and the Turkish Nation: Modern Narratives of Agriculture, Identity, and Contestation

Kyle T. Evered and Emine Ö. Evered

6 A Usable Past in Tashkent: Public Culture, Eidolons, and “Uzbekness” in Independent Uzbekistan

Reuel R. Hanks

Part II: “Other” Identities and Counternarratives

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

7 Remembering Rio: From the Imperial Palace to the African Heritage Circuit

Brian J. Godfrey

8 The Cityscapes of Lusaka and Mongu: Narrating National Symbolism in Zambia

Garth A. Myers and Angela G. Subulwa

9 Rewriting the National Past in Contemporary Budapest: Populism in Action

Emilia Palonen

10 Urban National Politics in the United States: #BlackLivesMatter and the Challenges to Normative National Identity

Joshua F. J. Inwood

11 From Precolonial to Postcolonial African Cities: Identity Formation, Social Change, and Conflict

Bill Freund

Part III: National Identity amid Globalization

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

12 National Day Celebrations in Doha and Abu Dhabi: Cars and Semiotic Landscapes in the Gulf

Natalie Koch

13 With or without Chinese Characteristics in Beijing, Wuhan, and Shenzhen: Navigating Antiquity and Modernism in Socialist China’s Urban Space

James DeShaw Rae

14 From “Rural” to “Urban” India: Transforming a Nation’s Identity through Serial Urban Renewals

Diganta Das and Bikramaditya K. Choudhary

15 Ethno- and Religio-nationalism in Putrajaya, Taman Tamadun Islam, and Kota Iskandar: Malay(sian) National Identity in Contemporary Urban Megaprojects

Sarah Moser

16 The City as Crucible: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity into the Twenty-First Century

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

Bibliography

Index

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