Main entry:

Burk, Adrienne L. (Adrienne Lee), 1954-

Title & Author:

Speaking for a long time : public space and social memory in Vancouver / Adrienne L. Burk.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

Description:

xviii, 191 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Act. Marker of change / À l'aube du changement -- The CRAB Park boulder -- Standing with courage, strength and pride.
pt. 2. Frame. Public space, social order and visibility -- Memory : blending the personal and the social -- Monuments : permanence and memory -- A geographic sensibility.
pt. 3. Forge. Continuousness of the issue -- Acknowledging the unseen -- Consolidating claims of community -- Design features -- Street smarts -- Proposition : a politics of visibility.

Summary:

In the late 1990s, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside became the setting for three monuments - Crab Park Boulder, Marker of Change and Standing with Courage, Strength and Pride. The monuments were grassroots initiatives that challenged the norms of civic art by claiming a place in public space for society's most vulnerable groups, and each figured in debates about many kinds of violence. Emphasizing the resilience and agency of artists, activists and residents, this vivid account of the creation of memory-scapes offers unique insights into the links between power, public space and social memory. Adrienne L. Burk is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.
"The tragedy at Ecole Polytechnique that took the lives of our daughter Anne-Marie Edward and her engineering school companions, and the ongoing tragedy of the murder of Aboriginal women, have changed our collective social consciousness about violence against women Adrienne Burk's beautiful and sensitive account of three commemoration sites in Vancouver dedicated to women murdered by men is a case in point, written with extraordinary insight. Speaking for a Long Time will indeed speak for a long time. Suzanne Laplante-Edward.
"What is the meaning of public monuments? In seeking answers to this innocuous-seeming question, Adrienne Burk has produced a fascinating study of urban space, social memory and community history Burk is not an academic who remains in the ivory tower, the value of her book is that she is down on the sidewalk. Observing talking, recording, reflecting." Daniel Francis, Vancouver historian, author and editor of the Encyclopedia of British Columbia.
"Sexual warfare unlike class warfare or monuments to world wars rarely has a public monument. Speaking for a Long Time elaborates on how social monuments can amplify the voices of murdered women everywhere so that society can no longer stand the overwhelming sounds of grief and rage and is forced to change. This book is a powerful clarification of the crucial role of social art for women in public spaces. Ellen Woodsworth Vancouver City Councillor and cofounder of Breaking the Silence of Violence Against Women in the Downtown Eastside. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9780774816984 (bound) :
0774816988
0774816996
9780774816991

Subject:

Memorials British Columbia Vancouver.
Public art British Columbia Vancouver.
Public spaces British Columbia Vancouver.
Social action British Columbia Vancouver.
Women Crimes against Canada.
Collective memory British Columbia Vancouver.
Monuments commémoratifs Colombie-Britannique Vancouver.
Art public Colombie-Britannique Vancouver.
Espaces publics Colombie-Britannique Vancouver.
Action sociale Colombie-Britannique Vancouver.
Femmes Crimes contre Canada.
Mémoire collective Colombie-Britannique Vancouver.
Collective memory.
Memorials.
Public art.
Public spaces.
Social action.
Social conditions
Women Crimes against.
Crimes contre les femmes Canada.
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) Social conditions.
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, C.-B.) Conditions sociales.
British Columbia Vancouver.
British Columbia Vancouver Downtown-Eastside.
Canada.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272889
Call No.: BIB 206270
Status: Available