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Specificity through blood shed
Posted by Tarquin Sinan on 2026-07-30
In 2023, amidst a six-month-long field mission in Northern Cyprus, I encountered an unusual public sculpture in the small village of Çamlıköy. A sizeable memorial space had been dedicated to the local community’s only martyr [şehit], a boy named Emin İzzet, who was killed in March 1964 at the age of sixteen. His sculpture stands at the centre of an ornamental commemorative space, the proportions [...]
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Divided memory in a divided Germany
Posted by Kirsten Fischer on 2026-07-27
There’s a personal backstory for my comparison of the post-war histories of two German concentrations camps, one in East and the other in West Germany. In 2023 I visited the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum because I was putting together a syllabus for a course that would bring students from the University of Minnesota to Germany to learn about German memorial culture. That visit led me to [...]
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Cities Remember What We Try to Forget
Posted by Santosh Kumar Ketham on 2025-12-04
There’s a sound beneath every city, a kind of heartbeat we pretend not to hear. It hums through pavement cracks and lingers in dust swept from demolished doorways. We call it progress when the skyline rises. But I keep wondering: progress for whom, and at what cost? While editing this special issue of Socio-Cultural Theory, I wasn’t just reviewing articles. I was walking through a chorus of [...]
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Reading Cemeteries as Urban Interiors: New York City and Istanbul in Dialogue
Posted by Alison B. Snyder and V. Şafak Uysal on 2025-10-14
What happens when two urban walkers (and interior design professors) – one in Istanbul, one in New York City – start visiting cemeteries, not to mourn but simply to walk, observe, and listen? Our awareness and approaches began to shift as we studied our interests. As designers, we pushed ourselves to consider the subject of death and burial well beyond typical aspects of mourning or visiting the [...]
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Nostalgia through Cinematic Space: The case of Kung fu Hustle
Posted by Xiaoyu Chen on 2025-04-02
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, a Hong Kong film released last year, achieved extraordinary popularity and box-office success. This action film, which revolves around gang conflicts in the Kowloon Walled City—a lower-class enclave in 1980s Hong Kong—prompts us to recognize that cultural nostalgia for Hong Kong’s past persists as an undiminished collective sentiment within Sinophone [...]
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