Main entry:

Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968- author.

Title & Author:

The everyday life of memorials / Andrew M. Shanken.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2022.
©2022

Description:

435 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-417) and index.
Preface -- Introduction : Memorials no more -- Everyday memory -- Labile memory -- Placing memory : cemeteries and parks -- Misplacing memory : memorials in circles, squares, and medians -- Displacing memory -- Mustering memory -- Assembling memory -- What we do at memorials -- What memorials do at memorials -- Conclusion : What is this? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Summary:

"This book works with the literature of the everyday, memory studies, and non-representational geography to open up a novel understanding of memorials not just as everyday objects, but also as fundamental to urban modernity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781942130727 hardcover
1942130724 hardcover
electronic book
9781942130734

Subject:

Memorialization.
Memorials.
Sociology, Urban.
Collective memory.
Public spaces Philosophy.
Commémorations.
Sociologie urbaine.
Mémoire collective.
Espaces publics Philosophie.
commemorations (events)
urban sociology.
ART / General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316639
Call No.: 316639
Copy: 1
Status: Available