Title & Author:

Contentious spaces : uncovering the hidden narratives of state-socialist built heritage / edited by Maja Babić and Tino Mager.

Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2026.

Description:

211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The World Without: On Shards and Lost Languages / Carmen Popescu -- The Material Heritage of Socialist Modernist: International Perspectives / Maja Babić and Tino Mager -- State-Socialist Urban Heritage and Ideology -- Artefact or Monument? Afterlives of Socialist Relief Sculpture between Conservation and Repoliticisation / Emma Louise Leahy -- (In)tangible Socialist Heritage of Yugoslav Youth Labour Brigades: Can We Think the (Un)Imaginable? / Nikolina Bobic -- Romania's Heritage of Socialist Sports Buildings: The Case of the Bacău Sports Hall / Ruxandra Balcanu -- Remaking Nature: Environmental and Urban Industrial Development during and after State Socialism, the Case of Industrial Navoi and Aktau (formerly Shevchenko) in the 1960s-2020s / Nadezda Gobova -- Appropriating State-Socialist Urban Heritage -- When Does a Space End? Yugoslav Socialist Memorials and the EU 'Anti-Totalitarian' Reckoning / Tatjana Aleksić -- Above Nostalgia, Beyond Stereotypes: Tourism, Feminism and Activism as Paradigms of Contemporary Revalorisation of Modernist Legacies in Post-Yugoslav Space / Jovana Janinović -- Beyond the Narrativeof the "Wild 1990s": Cultural and Architectural Legacy of Soviet Industry / Polina Gundarina and Marina Sapunova -- Cafeneaua Guguţă: Heritage and Civic Activism in Chişinău / Abigail Karas -- Breka: Its Potential as an Affordable and Liveable Neighbourhood / Elsa Turkusic Juric -- About the Contributors

Summary:

Contentius Spaces explores the heritage of state-socialist architecture and urbanism, examining the socio-political, economic, and cultural processes that shaped these developments. The articles in this volume investigate both the conservation and preservation of this heritage, as well as the historicisation of modernist architectural vocabulary in the contemporary era. Moreover, the texts consider the heritage of state-socialist architecture and urban planning in relation to the global built environment and current geopolitical and socio-cultural processes. By engaging with marginalised actors and spaces within post-socialist discourse, Contentious Spaces expands existing scholarship and acknowledges the architectural heritage of women architects and minorities, as well as the links between political centres of power and modernist architecture in geopolitical peripheries and their contemporary heritage. Geographically, the chapters engage with East-Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and other post-socialist spaces worldwide"--From page [4] of cover.

ISBN:

9789462705050 (paperback)
9462705054
(ePub ebook)
9789461667212
(PDF ebook)
9789461667205

Subject:

Architecture Conservation and restoration Former communist countries.
Communism and architecture.
Space (Architecture) Europe History 20th century.
City planning Europe History 20th century.
Post-communism Europe History 20th century.
Communisme et architecture.
Architecture Conservation et restauration Anciens pays communistes.
Espace (Architecture) Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Postcommunisme Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Conservation and restoration
Former communist countries

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Babic, Maja, editor.
Mager, Tino, editor.

Uncovering the hidden narratives of state-socialist built heritage

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326087
Call No.: 326087
Copy: 1
Status: Available