What to Do with Ruins? – Contemporary Uses of Ruination : Contemporary Uses of Ruination
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1836245386
ISBN-13
9781836245384
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
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Liverpool University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 5th, 2025
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
504 grams
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16.10 x 24.30 x 2.00 cms
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ArchaeologyCultural studiesCultural studiesAnthropologyArchaeology
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The essays in this book explore the history of ruins in multiple cultures and periods. The links between the materiality of monuments and global processes of ruination are seldom explored, as are the historicity of rubble and its museumification.
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 between presence and absence; they remind us of caducity while conjuring up the spectrum of the completeness that would negate them. They can awaken the eeriness of the disintegrating modern city and serve as a metaphor for institutional decay. But they can also underpin proposals of restoration through salvage and reuse of the rubble.
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