Public spheres after socialism (Intellect, 2009)
"[P]apers ... originated in a three-day conference--'The Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation'--organized by the National Association of Art Critics, Armenia in collaboration witht he Critical Spaces Research Group ... The Conference took place at the American University, Yerevan, between 25 and 27 October 2005"--Page [7]
Includes bibliographical references
Section one - Monuments and public spheres -- - Peace in ruins : the value of mementoes, temporary shrines and floral tributes as markers of the public sphere - Paul Gough -- - State icons and narratives in the symbolic cityscape of Yerevan - Angela Harutyunyan -- - Public sphere as a place for gifts : social-symbolic characteristics of the city-building of post-Soviet Yerevan - Nazareth Karoyan -- - Section two - Representations and discourses -- - Cinema as political movement in democratic and totalitarian societies since the 1960s - Anna Schober -- - Public space : the city in Armenian literature - Vardan Jaloyan -- - You tell me : a topography - Jane Rendell -- - Section three - Identities and topographies of everyday life -- - Routes through the city : youth identities and spatial practices in Leipzig - Kathrin Hörschelmann -- - New social order and change in media landscape - Hrach Bayadyan -- - Remote control : dangers and delights of Armenian TV surfing - Vahram Martirosyan -- - Section four - Public spaces, times and spheres -- - Time without qualities : cracking the regime of urgency - Stephen Wright -- - Public spheres - Malcolm Miles
The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces. Public Spheres After Socialism contests this in light of shifts of perspective in the East and West after the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Public Spheres After Socialism draws together contemporary experiences from Armenia - an interesting site of cultural and political cross-currents - Germany, Austria, France and the United Kingdom. It reconsiders the concept of a public sphere as a figurative, or mythical, location in which the members of a society shape and determine its va