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2 books match the query 'Spaces Between'
Extra/ordinary Johannesburg
Centrality, Periphery and the Spaces BetweenLindsay Blair Howe
University College London, 2025
In Extra/ordinary Johannesburg, urbanist Lindsay Blair Howe argues that Johannesburg, part of the highly urbanized Gauteng City-Region and often labeled as an “apartheid city,” is an “ordinary” space where spatial changes both marginalize and create opportunities for people in their everyday lives. Structured around the concepts of urbanization and peripheralization and drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of spatial dialectics, the book uses empirical research methods like smartphone applications and volunteered geographic information to draw theoretical conclusions, providing exciting new insights into urban denizens’ daily lives and how urbanization in the Gauteng region relates to the decolonial project. One central premise is that understanding how people navigate the urban fabric of centralities, peripheries, and the spaces in between is crucial for reimagining effective ways to address poverty and inequality in urban Africa.
The Stages of Memory
Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces BetweenJames E. Young
University of Massachusetts Press, 2016
Winner of the 2017 National Council on Public History Book Award
From around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memorial process for the murders at Utøya, James E. Young has been called on to help guide the grief stricken and survivors in how to mark their losses. This poignant, beautifully written collection of essays offers personal and professional considerations of what Young calls the “stages of memory,” acts of commemoration that include spontaneous memorials of flowers and candles as well as permanent structures integrated into sites of tragedy. As he traces an arc of memorial forms that spans continents and decades, Young returns to the questions that preoccupy survivors, architects, artists, and writers: How to articulate a void without filling it in? How to formalize irreparable loss without seeming to repair it?
Richly illustrated, the volume is essential reading for those engaged in the processes of public memory and commemoration and for readers concerned about how we remember terrible losses.