Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver - Hardcover

Burk, Adrienne L.

 
9780774816984: Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver

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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.

This vivid account of the creation of memory-scapes in a marginalized community offers unique insights into the links between power, public space, and social memory and asks us to reconsider what constitutes public art that will "speak for a long time." Emphasizing the resilience and agency of artists, activists, and residents, Adrienne Burk shows that grassroots activism can give the socially marginalized a visible presence in our urban landscapes.

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Adrienne L. Burk is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.

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9780774816991: Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver

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ISBN 10:  0774816996 ISBN 13:  9780774816991
Verlag: University of British Columbia P..., 2011
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