Urban Semiotics The City As A Cultural Historical Phenomen

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tallinn University Press / Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789985588079

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Urban Semiotics: the City as a Cultural-Historical Phenomen by Anonim Pdf

This collection of essays presents the materials of the Third Annual Juri Lotman Days at Tallinn University in Estonia (3–5 June 2011). The participants discussed the semiotics of urban space from the perspective of the Tartu-Moscow School in comparison with contemporary approaches. This book consists of four sections. The articles in the first section discuss how “urban texts” function in modern and contemporary Baltic cultures. The papers in the second section focus on the semiotics of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian and Soviet culture from the perspective of linguistic poetics, cultural semiotics, and new materiality. The last two sections are devoted to the visual perceptions of the cityscape and their ideological interpretations as exemplified by Ukrainian, Estonian, Korean, Chinese, and North American illustrations.

Author : Serhiy Bilenky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228018582

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Laboratory of Modernity by Serhiy Bilenky Pdf

When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives of its inhabitants, shaping modern Ukraine into the multiethnic country it is today. Making innovative use of methods of social and cultural history, gender studies, literary theory, and sociology, Laboratory of Modernity explores the history of Ukraine throughout the long nineteenth century and offers a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. Despite being subjected to different and conflicting power models during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ukraine was not only imagined as a distinct entity with a unique culture and history but was also realized as a set of social and political institutions. The story of modern Ukraine is geopolitically complex, encompassing the historical narratives of several major communities – including ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Russians – who for centuries lived side by side. The first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Laboratory of Modernity traces the historical origins of some of the most pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.

Author : Irena Ragaišienė,Adelheid Rundholz
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847016151

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(Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature by Irena Ragaišienė,Adelheid Rundholz Pdf

This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a nation and its writers' works do not exist in isolation from their history. Stressing migration and (inter)cultural dialogue, authors explore how the characters in the texts establish a sense of belonging both within the context of migrations and within the context of Lithuania since its independence. The final series of essays in this book discusses Lithuanian literature abroad that is in translation.

Author : Francisco Martinez
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353534

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Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia by Francisco Martinez Pdf

What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field. The anthropological study of all these places shows that national identity and historical representations can be constructed in relation to waste and disrepair too, also demonstrating how we can understand generational change in a material sense. Praise for Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia 'By adopting the tropes of ‘repair’ and ‘waste’, this book innovatively manages to link various material registers from architecture, intergenerational relations, affect and museums with ways of making the past present. Through a rigorous yet transdisciplinary method, Martínez brings together different scales and contexts that would often be segregated out. In this respect, the ethnography unfolds a deep and nuanced analysis, providing a useful comparative and insightful account of the processes of repair and waste making in all their material, social and ontological dimensions.' Victor Buchli, Professor of Material Culture at UCL 'This book comprises an endearingly transdisciplinary ethnography of postsocialist material culture and social change in Estonia. Martínez creatively draws on a number of critical and cultural theorists, together with additional research on memory and political studies scholarship and the classics of anthropology. Grappling concurrently with time and space, the book offers a delightfully thick description of the material effects generated by the accelerated post-Soviet transformation in Estonia, inquiring into the generational specificities in experiencing and relating to the postsocialist condition through the conceptual anchors of wasted legacies and repair. This book defies disciplinary boundaries and shows how an attention to material relations and affective infrastructures might reinvigorate political theory.' Maria Mälksoo, Senior Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies at the University of Kent

Author : Federico Bellentani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110617276

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The Meanings of the Built Environment by Federico Bellentani Pdf

This volume analyses the interpretation of the built environment by connecting analytical frames developed in the fields of semiotics and geography. It focuses on specific components of the built environment: monuments and memorials, as it is easily recognisable that they are erected to promote specific meanings in the public space. The volume concentrates on monuments and memorials in post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe, with a focus on Estonia. Elites in post-Soviet countries have often used monuments to shape meanings reflecting the needs of post-Soviet culture and society. However, individuals can interpret monuments in ways that are different from those envisioned by their designers. In Estonia, the relocation and removal of Soviet monuments and the erection of new ones has often created political divisions and resulted in civil disorder. This book examines the potential gap between the designers’ expectations and the users’ interpretations of monuments and memorials. The main argument is that connecting semiotics and geography can provide an innovative framework to understand how monuments convey meanings and how these are variously interpreted at societal levels.

Author : Federico Bellentani,Mario Panico,Lia Yoka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800887220

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Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space by Federico Bellentani,Mario Panico,Lia Yoka Pdf

This book outlines the future of semiotic research in the study of urban spaces, with chapters authored by leading scholars in the field. It offers thought-provoking explanations of semiotic theory, methodology and applications with the goal of exploring recently developed approaches to the interpretive aspects of urban space. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Andrii Portnov
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9798887190334

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Dnipro by Andrii Portnov Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern Eurasia This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.

Author : M. Gottdiener,Alexandros-Ph Lagopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231932065

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The City and the Sign by M. Gottdiener,Alexandros-Ph Lagopoulos Pdf

Author : Milton Singer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857757

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Semiotics of Cities, Selves, and Cultures by Milton Singer Pdf

Author : Michelle M. Metro-Roland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0754678091

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Tourists, Signs and the City by Michelle M. Metro-Roland Pdf

Based on the work of American scientist and philospher Charles S. Peirce concerning the interpretation of signs, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment.

Author : Pierre Frankhauser,Dominique Ansel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658155421

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Deciding Where to Live by Pierre Frankhauser,Dominique Ansel Pdf

This book proposes, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, an original reading of current work on residential choice and the decisions associated with it. Geographers, social-psychologists, economists, sociologists, neurologists and linguists have worked together in the context of collective research into evaluation, choice and decision-making in the use of urban and periurban spaces. A synthetic outlook has been constructed from these complimentary scientific references. The book, which is designed as a handbook, also provides the opportunity to set out the different approaches to deal with the models which have been developed in this field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110874259

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Advances in Visual Semiotics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 0415304962

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Urban Culture by Chris Jenks Pdf

"This set includes key pieces from Peter Ackroyd, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Homi Bhaba, Charles Dickens, Fredrick Engles, Paul Gilroy, Thomas Hobbes, Max Weber, George Simmel, Ian Sinclair, Edward W. Soja, Gayatri Spivak, Nigel Thrift, Virginia Woolf, Sharon Zukin, and many others. The material is arranged thematically highlighting the variety of interests that coexist (and conflict) within the city. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered along with urban experiences such as walking, politics & protest, governance, inclusion and exclusion. "Urban pathologies," including gangsters, mugging, and drug-dealing are also explored. Selections cover cities from around the globe, including London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Bombay and Tokyo. A general introduction by the editor reviews theoretical perspectives and provides a rationale for the collection. This collection offers a valuable research tool to a broad range of disciplines, including: sociology; anthropology; cultural history; cultural geography; art critical theory; visual culture; literary studies; social policy and cultural studies." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/2004044268-d.html.

Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814746799

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Representing the City by Anthony D. King Pdf

Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented. Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.

Author : Stephanie Schwerter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501380433

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City Limits by Stephanie Schwerter Pdf

Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds. Despite their different histories, they share a wide range of features central to divided cities. In each city, particular territories take on specific symbolic and psychological meanings. Following a comparative approach, this book concentrates on the cinematographic representations of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin. Filmmakers are in constant search for new ways in order to engage with urban division. Making use of a variety of genres reaching from thriller to comedy, they explore the three cities' internal and external borders, as well as the psychological boundaries existing between citizens belonging to different communities. Among the characters featuring in films set in Belfast, Berlin and Beirut we may count dangerous gunmen, prisoners' wives, soldiers and snipers, but also comic Stasi-members, punk aficionados and fake nuns. The various characters contribute to the creation of a multifaceted image of city limits in troubled times.