Ambivalent Architectures
       Editors: Anca Pusca and Cerwyn Moore

INTRODUCTION

Anca Pusca and Cerwyn Moore
Ambivalent Architectures: Violence, visualization, memorialization

ESSAYS

Cerwyn Moore
Ambivalent Architectures: Violence in public places

Rolando Vázquez
Modernity, the Greatest Show on Earth: Thoughts on visibility

Anca Pusca
The ‘Roma Problem’ in the EU: Nomadism, (in)visible architectures and violence

Priya Dixit
Conflicting Representations of National Identity: Meaning-making through a Nepalese museum

Emel Akçali
The Ambivalent Role of National Landmarks in the Age of Globalization: The case of Atatürk’s mausoleum in Turkey

ESSAYS

Joel McKim
New York’s Spontaneous 9/11 Memorials and the Politics of Ambivalence

Susan Schuppli
Improvised Explosive Designs: The film-set as military set-up

REVIEW ESSAYS

Mathew Abbott
From Uneasy Dreams: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Idiosyncrasy
(Anca Pusca, ed., Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.)

Pepijn van Houwelingen
Empire, Global Resistance and its Limitations
(Francis Shor, Dying Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance, New York: Routledge, 2010.)

J. Douglas Macready
Redeeming Levinas
(Sam B. Girgus, Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.)