In Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention, Katharine Keenan argues for the reimagining of place in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the context of Brexit. This deeply researched ethnography depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and perform a new urban identity for Belfast in the liminal time between the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit.
Katharine Keenan is director of Foundation and Corporate Relations at Carthage College.
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The Belfast Imaginary provides a timely and important review of how artists, in concert with public officials, have pioneered what Katharine Keenan calls ‘third way art’ in the imagining and construction of a new Belfast. Keenan shows that we can all take heart that a city, so torn by decades of violent conflict and years of post-conflict liminality, can still imagine itself as a space of creativity and peace. The Belfast Imaginary may very well serve as a blueprint of similar imaginings in places geographically distant but close in spirit to this rapidly evolving global city.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: In Medias ResChapter 2: Third Way Art – Policy and ProcessChapter 3: The Painting on the WallChapter 4: Performing DiversityChapter 5: Stopping in the StreetConclusion: Belfast in the Meantime
