City as Power

Alexander C. Diener is associate professor of geography at the University of Kansas. Joshua Hagen is dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

• List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1 The City as Palimpsest: Narrating National Identity throughUrban Space and Place Alexander C. Diener and Joshua HagenPart I: Remembering and Forgetting Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen2 Creating a Place for the Nation in Dublin: The Republic of Ireland’s Garden of Remembrance Kara E. Dempsey3 Making a Wrong Turn in Tokyo: Yasukuni Shrine and the “Empty Center” of Contemporary Japanese Nationalism Ronald Davidson4 The City, Memory, and Ideology in Ulaanbaatar: Inscribing Memory and Ideology in Postsocialist Mongolia Orhon Myadar5 Ankara’s Forest Farm and the Turkish Nation: Modern Narratives of Agriculture, Identity, and Contestation Kyle T. Evered and Emine Ö. Evered6 A Usable Past in Tashkent: Public Culture, Eidolons, and “Uzbekness” in Independent UzbekistanReuel R. HanksPart II: “Other” Identities and Counternarratives Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen7 Remembering Rio: From the Imperial Palace to the African Heritage CircuitBrian J. Godfrey8 The Cityscapes of Lusaka and Mongu: Narrating National Symbolism in ZambiaGarth A. Myers and Angela G. Subulwa9 Rewriting the National Past in Contemporary Budapest: Populism in ActionEmilia Palonen10 Urban National Politics in the United States: #BlackLivesMatter and the Challenges to Normative National IdentityJoshua F. J. Inwood11 From Precolonial to Postcolonial African Cities: Identity Formation, Social Change, and Conflict Bill FreundPart III: National Identity amid Globalization Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen12 National Day Celebrations in Doha and Abu Dhabi: Cars and Semiotic Landscapes in the GulfNatalie Koch13 With or without Chinese Characteristics in Beijing, Wuhan, and Shenzhen: Navigating Antiquity and Modernism in Socialist China’s Urban Space James DeShaw Rae14 From “Rural” to “Urban” India: Transforming a Nation’s Identity through Serial Urban RenewalsDiganta Das and Bikramaditya K. Choudhary15 Ethno- and Religio-nationalism in Putrajaya, Taman Tamadun Islam, and Kota Iskandar: Malay(sian) National Identity in Contemporary Urban MegaprojectsSarah Moser16 The City as Crucible: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity into the Twenty-First CenturyAlexander C. Diener and Joshua HagenBibliography Index About the Contributors

Diener and Hagen have assembled a talented cast of scholars to investigate a wide range of urban landscapes, national ideologies, and political struggles from across the globe—from the everyday performance of car culture in the UAE to highly charged #BlackLivesMatter protests in the United States. In particular, The City as Power makes a major contribution to the recent ‘memory turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. The volume demonstrates the ways in which urban space is a vehicle for narrating and debating what histories and whose identities matter or belong in the contemporary nation.