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Recounting Skopje. Skopje 2014: Symbolic and Citizens' Narratives

  • Focusing on the neoliberal symbolic urban reconstruction of the Macedonian capital, known as “Skopje 2014”, the PhD work deals with urban space production through storytelling. Embracing the criticism put forward in the political, cultural and social debates that have spun around Skopje’s reconstruction, the artistic-based research sought to relate and analyze the symbolic narratives of “SkopjeFocusing on the neoliberal symbolic urban reconstruction of the Macedonian capital, known as “Skopje 2014”, the PhD work deals with urban space production through storytelling. Embracing the criticism put forward in the political, cultural and social debates that have spun around Skopje’s reconstruction, the artistic-based research sought to relate and analyze the symbolic narratives of “Skopje 2014” and the vernacular and civic narratives of Skopje and locate overlapping, divergent, complementary or conflictual aspects of their respective narrative structures. Informed by subjective citizens’ stories and experiences of the urban as well as binaural sonic observations of the city, the research findings were presented in the form of an interactive audio guided walk through the city. The thesis is organized in three chapters, preceded by an INTRODUCTION and followed by a CONCLUSION. CHAPTER ONE sets the theoretical context, presents the case study “Skopje 2014”, and discusses the research design. The audio guided walk is presented in CHAPTER TWO. Its content consists of five tracks, or subchapters, conceptualized and named as five different aspects of the city: THE MODERNIST CITY, THE FEMALE CITY, THE MEMORY CITY, THE POSTCOMMUNIST CITY and THE TOURIST CITY, according to the discourses related to these tracks. CHAPTER THREE, the EPILOGUE, is the final discussion of the research project, in which several meta-conclusions are drawn.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Author: Ivana Sidjimovska
DOI (Cite-Link):https://doi.org/10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4025Cite-Link
URN (Cite-Link):https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20191119-40256Cite-Link
Referee:Prof. Dr. Frank EckardtORCiDGND, Dr. Susanna Schönberg
Advisor:Prof. Christine HillGND, Prof. Dr. Frank EckardtORCiDGND, Dr. Boris BudenGND
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2019/11/16
Date of first Publication:2019/11/16
Date of final exam:2019/05/21
Release Date:2019/11/19
Publishing Institution:Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Granting Institution:Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung
Institutes and partner institutions:Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung / Freie Kunst
Pagenumber:363
Tag:Skopje 2014; art in public space; artistic research; audio walk; neoliberal urban reconstruction; urban narratives
GND Keyword:Stadtumbau; Audioführung
Dewey Decimal Classification:700 Künste und Unterhaltung
BKL-Classification:20 Kunstwissenschaften
21 Einzelne Kunstformen
70 Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
Licence (German):License Logo Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)