Shanti Sumartojo is a Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She studied at Carleton College, the University of Edinburgh and the Australian National University, from which she holds a PhD in Sociology. Her current research is on the social impact of public art and the sociology and geography of national commemorative sites. Her coedited volume (with Ben Wellings) on Great War commemoration in Europe and Australia will be published with Peter Lang in 2014.
Trafalgar Square and the Narration of Britishness, 1900-2012. Imagining the Nation
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- Nombre de pages216
- ISBN978-3-0343-0814-4
- EAN9783034308144
- Date de parution01/08/2013
- CollectionBritish Identities since 1707
- ÉditeurPeter Lang
Résumé
London's Trafalgar Square is one of the world's best known public places, and during its relatively short history has seen violent protest, imperial and royal spectacle and wild national celebration. This book draws together scholarship on national identity, cultural geography, and the histories of Britain and London to ask what role the Square has played in narrating British national identity through its many uses.
The author focuses on a series of examples to draw out her arguments, ranging from the Suffragettes' use of the site in the early twentieth century to the Fourth Plinth contemporary art scheme in the early twenty-first. The book explores how different users of the Square have understood national identity, and how the site itself has shaped this narrative through its built elements and history of use.
Ultimately, Trafalgar Square and the Narration of Britishness, 1900-2012 uses the Square to explore the processes by which urban public place can help to construct, maintain or transform national identity.
The author focuses on a series of examples to draw out her arguments, ranging from the Suffragettes' use of the site in the early twentieth century to the Fourth Plinth contemporary art scheme in the early twenty-first. The book explores how different users of the Square have understood national identity, and how the site itself has shaped this narrative through its built elements and history of use.
Ultimately, Trafalgar Square and the Narration of Britishness, 1900-2012 uses the Square to explore the processes by which urban public place can help to construct, maintain or transform national identity.
