This book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study, it shows how these memorials often support, but sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of nationalism. 62 b/w illus. 14 col.
The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study, the book shows how these memorials often support, but sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of nationalism.
Nico Carpentier is Extraordinary Professor at Charles University in Prague; he also holds part-time positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at Uppsala University. With Intellect he previously published Communication and Discourse Theory: Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group (2019, co-edited with Leen Van Brussel and Benjamin De Cleen), Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle (2010) and Reclaiming the Media: Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles (2007, with Bart Cammaerts).
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Iconoclastic Controversies
Chapter 2: Communicating Academic Knowledge beyond the Written Academic Text
Chapter 3: On Antagonism and Nationalism - A Discursive- Material Re- Reading
Chapter 4: The Discourses and Materialities of Cypriot Antagonistic Nationalism
Chapter 5: The Iconoclastic Controversies Photographs
Chapter 6: The Reception of the Two Cypriot Exhibitions with Vaia Doudaki, Yiannis Christidis and Fatma Nazli Koeksal
Chapter 7: The Interviews
Appendix 1: Overview of Interviews and Broadcasts by Project Partners about the Two Exhibitions in Cyprus
Appendix 2: Media That Covered the Two Exhibitions in Cyprus