Empty Spaces
Subtitle: Confronting Emptiness in National, Cultural and Urban History
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781909646490
Subjects: Space (architecture)
Description: Within the expanding literature on spatial history, comparatively little has been said of the role that emptiness serves as a tool in the construction of historical narratives, as a condition that serves specific societal roles, or as a site of historical memory. This volume considers empty space, emptiness, or 'nothingness' to be an equal, if neglected component in the fabric of physical and imagined space, and suggests that those spaces which are considered empty and devoid of content are just as important to the social production of space and landscape as those which are remembered, celebrated or memorialised.