Performing Imaginary Healings:  The post- conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks

Tom Maguire

doi:10.4324/9780429460388

Performing Imaginary Healings: The post- conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks

Tom Maguire

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Abstract

The name Derry- Londonderry in Northern Ireland attests to how its identity and
heritage remain contested: a key example of dissonant heritage in a historically
divided city. As part of an ongoing peace process following the 1998 Belfast Agreement, the remapping of the urban landscape has been undertaken through the regeneration of key parts of the built environment and specific initiatives to reimage the city. These were given added impetus by the designation of the city as the inaugural UK City of Culture in 2013 to project an image of a city whose historic divisions had been healed. This chapter examines how the site of the former Ebrington military barracks has been transformed to support this process.
I am concerned with how a variety of forms of performance have engendered a
new spatial imaginary, ‘constituted through the lived experiences, perceptions and conceptions of space itself ’ (Wolford 2004 : 410), within which the ethno- religious divisions of the city’s past are healed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
Subtitle of host publication	Contested Pasts
Editors	Mirjana Ristic, Sybille Frank
Place of Publication	London and New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	14
Pages	223-237
Number of pages	15
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429460388
ISBN (Print)	9781138624863
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429460388
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 4 Oct 2019

Publication series

Name	Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

Heritage/Cultural Tourism
post-conflict heritage
performance and heritage

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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10.4324/9780429460388

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Performing Imaginary Healings: The post- conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks

Abstract

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Keywords

UN SDGs

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Performing Place, performing peace: space, place and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland

Heritage After Conflict: Northern Ireland

Real Scars and Imaginary Healings: staging Derry-Londonderry in the Year of Culture.

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Performing Imaginary Healings: The post- conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks

Abstract

Publication series

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

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Activities

Performing Place, performing peace: space, place and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland

Research output

Heritage After Conflict: Northern Ireland

Real Scars and Imaginary Healings: staging Derry-Londonderry in the Year of Culture.

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