What to Do with Ruins?: Contemporary Uses of Ruination - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joan Ramon Resina (Editor), Laura Menéndez Gorina (Editor)Publish date:9/5/2025Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781836245384ISBN-10:1836245386UPC:9781836245384Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, ArchaeologySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCH5CTM4DE
What to Do with Ruins?: Contemporary Uses of Ruination
The essays in this book explore the history of ruins in multiple cultures and periods. Authors study ways in which ruins can be appropriated, foregrounded and re-semanticized for political purposes. The links between the materiality of monuments and global processes of ruination are seldom explored, as are the historicity of rubble and its museumification. Ruins are predicated on the interplay...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781836245384ISBN-10:1836245386UPC:9781836245384Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, ArchaeologySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCH5CTM4DE
Resina, Joan Ramon: - Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford.Menéndez Gorina, Laura: - Laura Menéndez Gorina is Research Manager for Computational Social Sciences and Humanities and Education at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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