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Explores the success with which urban communities divided by race, nationality, class, and religion succeed at creating a new, inclusive civic identity.
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Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities tells the story of how fractured urban communities sometimes succeed and sometimes fail at creating a way of life embracing the many varieties of people and institutions that make cities both urban and urbane. The volume studies nine cities long divided by race, nationality, class, and religion: Washington, D.C., Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, L'viv, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Barcelona, and Riga. All have undergone greater and lesser transitions from authoritarian to democratic forms of government, creating new needs and opportunities to shape a civic identity. The contributors study these cities' presentations of their own history as embodied in everything from museum exhibits to architecture to street names. Do a city's efforts at material renewal and reform reflect and promote an inclusive, pluralistic self-image that supports nascent democratic institutions, or an exclusionary one that claims all the city for some particular group?Drawing on the experiences of the past half-century, Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities shows how the emergence of pluralistic images of the past, present, and future can open the way for more pluralistic understandings of power and social relations. Contributors are John Czaplicka, Howard Gillette, Jr., Grigorii V. Golosov, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Brian Ladd, Siegfried Mattl, James A. Miller, Jiri Musil, Cynthia Paces, Blair A. Ruble, Olga Sezneva, Ojars Sparitis, Pep Subiros, Victor Susak, Ilya Utekhin, and John Michael Vlach.
Contents
Contents:Living Apart TogetherDemocratic Transitions Blair A. RublePART ONE THE ARCHEOLOGY OF THE LOCALIntroduction John J. Czaplicka1. Looking Behind the Marble Mask: Varied African American Responses to Difficult History in Washington, D.C. John Michael Vlach2. Dual History: The Politics of the Past in Kaliningrad, Former Konigsberg Olga Sezneva3. Filling Dwelling Place with History: Communal Apartments in St. Petersburg Ilya UtekhinPART TWO THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF HISTORICAL IMAGESIntroduction Blair A. Ruble4. Identity Contests: Local History and Electoral Politics in St. Petersburg Grigorii V. Golosov5. Constructing A National City: The Case of L'viv Yaroslav Hrytsak and Victor Susak6. The Battle For Public Space on Prague's Old Town Square Cynthia Paces7. Washington, D.C., in White and Black: The Social Construction of Race and Nationhood Howard Gillette, Jr.PART THREE HISTORICAL ALTERITYIntroduction John J. Czaplicka8. Black Washington and the New Negro James A. Miller9. Vienna Since World War II Siegfried Mattl10. Local Responses in Berlin to Urban Decay and the Demise of the German Democratic Brian LaddPART FOUR TRANSFORMATIONSIntroduction Blair A. Ruble11. Barcelona: Cultural Strategies and Urban Renewal, 1979-1997 Pep Subiros12. Growth and Stagnation in 20th-Century Prague Jiri Musil13. The Rebirth and Restoration of Administrative, Political, and Cultural Symbols in Riga's Town Hall Square Ojars SparitisConclusion: Urban History After a Return to Locaal Self-Determination-Local History and Civic Idenity John J. Czaplicka
