Violence Taking Place The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict

Name: Violence Taking Place The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict
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ISBN: 9780804769365

ISBN-10: 0804769362

ISBN-13: 9780804769365

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andrew Herscher

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While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political violence. Rather than interpreting violence against architecture as a mere representation of "deeper" social, political, or ideological dynamics, Herscher reveals it to be a form of cultural production, irreducible to its contexts and formative of the identities and agencies that seemingly bear on…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English