The Emotional Life of Cultural Objects

Rubio, Fernando Domínguez; Benzecry, Claudio E.

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“…In the last decades, social scientists in numerous disciplines have centred materiality in the study of culture. In this ‘material turn’, scholars of art, material culture and actor‐network theory have moved beyond the idea of cultural objects as representations of meaning to a consideration of their material and spatial properties (Dominguez Rubio & Benzecry, 2018; Griswold et al, 2013; Keane, 2005; Latour, 2002; Miller, 2005). In attempting to unify an analytical split between symbolic meaning and the material world, these studies attend to the ways in which physical objects not only embody systems of meaning but also shape our interactions with them.…”

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The nation in bronze and granite: Creating national monuments in post‐Soviet Bishkek

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2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Scholars of nationalism have long looked to material forms of symbolic power to understand the politics and cultures of nations, and national monuments specifically have been studied as reflections of ideological programmes of political regimes. However, these approaches have paid insufficient attention to processes of creation. Given the importance of material symbols as sites through which the nation is understood, I argue that analysing the dynamics of creation expands our understanding of symbolic nation making. Using the case of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and focusing on moments of creation and the actors involved in them, I build a conceptual framework for understanding the construction of national symbols on the ground based on three interconnected and co‐constituting dynamics: spatial, temporal and aesthetic/semiotic. Using this framework, I demonstrate how meaning and materiality are related to one another both as component and consequent in the creation of national monuments and how it is their very imperfection as material representations that provides the context for the nation to emerge as a category of discourse.

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The nation in bronze and granite: Creating national monuments in post‐Soviet Bishkek

O'Shea

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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The Emotional Life of Cultural Objects

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The nation in bronze and granite: Creating national monuments in post‐Soviet Bishkek

The nation in bronze and granite: Creating national monuments in post‐Soviet Bishkek

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