Brigitte Le Normand
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitte Le Normand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Normand |
| SIGNATURE | LE NORMAND B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3576-4337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Potential of Locative Mobile Apps for Telling New Stories About Contested Cities
This article describes the design of a locative mobile phone app, Rijeka Fiume in Flux, for exploring the past of Rijeka, a city that was historically contested, first between Hungary and Croatia in the 19th century, and then between Italy and Yugoslavia in the 20th century. It evaluates how successfully it disrupts ethno-national narratives about the city’s identity. Modelled on experiential learning and polyvocality, the app seeks to share hist…
L’expérience française des Balkans
Ports in state socialism, or why the Cold War matters to maritime history
As central transport hubs of commodities, people and information, ports play a specific and important role in modern societies. This is valid even more so in socialist states. As we argue in this introduction, and subsequently throughout this Forum, socialist ports were in many ways places of exception: in a political system that preferred closed borders, ports symbolized the ‘gates to the world’; in an economic system that was thoroughly planned…
Rijeka as a socialist port
To understand the distinctiveness of ports under state socialism, it is necessary to shift the focus from the built environment to flows of people, goods, knowledge and capital. In so doing, this article examines the operation of Yugoslavia's main shipping line, Jugolinija, from its inception in 1947 until 1960. This enterprise was based in the port of Rijeka, with both firm and port experiencing rapid growth during this period. The impact of sta…
Jože Pirjevec. Tito and His Comrades
As Emily Greble points out in her foreword to Jože Pirjevec’s remarkable book Tito and His Comrades, Tito’s shadow looms over the history of socialist Yugoslavia. Indeed, its trajectory seems to parallel his own life story—at its inception in the crucible of war, Yugoslavia was bold, dynamic, but also hard and cruel, then it mellowed into a more open-minded, humane, and optimistic society that sought to innovate a more authentic form of socialism…
Kinga Pozniak. Nowa Huta
The story of the building of model industrial towns in the Eastern Bloc, such as Nowa Huta, Magnitogorsk, and Stalinstadt, has been richly told. But what fate befell such places when the curtain fell on state socialism? Not only did the changed economic circumstances typically spell economic decline for cities centered on heavy industry, but the new political climate propelled them from the symbolic center to the margins. Kinga Pozniak takes us o…
Designing Tito's Capital
Is There a Specific Ambivalence of the Sacred? Illustrations from the Apparition of Medjugorje and the Movement of Sant'Egidio
In the debate about the return of religion in politics, religious actors and discourses are viewed with a certain concern. Whereas some defend the peaceful effects of religion, most contributions understand religious truth claims as a challenge to democratic pluralism that presents a tendency toward violence. At best, the debate is summarised by Appleby's argument about the ambivalence of the sacred. We argue that this ambivalence is not specific…
Make No Little Plan
This essay investigates the interactions of Belgrade's urban planners, whose plans were an effort to create socialist order out of urban chaos, with the city's population, whose needs were often not met by these plans. After the Second World War, urban planners committed themselves to seek new urban forms that would embody the liberation of the people and empowerment under socialism. By the 1960s, planners had only been able to transform certain …
Rijeka as a socialist port
To understand the distinctiveness of ports under state socialism, it is necessary to shift the focus from the built environment to flows of people, goods, knowledge and capital. In so doing, this article examines the operation of Yugoslavia's main shipping line, Jugolinija, from its inception in 1947 until 1960. This enterprise was based in the port of Rijeka, with both firm and port experiencing rapid growth during this period. The impact of sta…
Ports in state socialism, or why the Cold War matters to maritime history
As central transport hubs of commodities, people and information, ports play a specific and important role in modern societies. This is valid even more so in socialist states. As we argue in this introduction, and subsequently throughout this Forum, socialist ports were in many ways places of exception: in a political system that preferred closed borders, ports symbolized the ‘gates to the world’; in an economic system that was thoroughly planned…
Make No Little Plan
This essay investigates the interactions of Belgrade's urban planners, whose plans were an effort to create socialist order out of urban chaos, with the city's population, whose needs were often not met by these plans. After the Second World War, urban planners committed themselves to seek new urban forms that would embody the liberation of the people and empowerment under socialism. By the 1960s, planners had only been able to transform certain …
Is There a Specific Ambivalence of the Sacred? Illustrations from the Apparition of Medjugorje and the Movement of Sant'Egidio
In the debate about the return of religion in politics, religious actors and discourses are viewed with a certain concern. Whereas some defend the peaceful effects of religion, most contributions understand religious truth claims as a challenge to democratic pluralism that presents a tendency toward violence. At best, the debate is summarised by Appleby's argument about the ambivalence of the sacred. We argue that this ambivalence is not specific…
Designing Tito's Capital
Kinga Pozniak. Nowa Huta
The story of the building of model industrial towns in the Eastern Bloc, such as Nowa Huta, Magnitogorsk, and Stalinstadt, has been richly told. But what fate befell such places when the curtain fell on state socialism? Not only did the changed economic circumstances typically spell economic decline for cities centered on heavy industry, but the new political climate propelled them from the symbolic center to the margins. Kinga Pozniak takes us o…
Jože Pirjevec. Tito and His Comrades
As Emily Greble points out in her foreword to Jože Pirjevec’s remarkable book Tito and His Comrades, Tito’s shadow looms over the history of socialist Yugoslavia. Indeed, its trajectory seems to parallel his own life story—at its inception in the crucible of war, Yugoslavia was bold, dynamic, but also hard and cruel, then it mellowed into a more open-minded, humane, and optimistic society that sought to innovate a more authentic form of socialism…
Ports in state socialism, or why the Cold War matters to maritime history
As central transport hubs of commodities, people and information, ports play a specific and important role in modern societies. This is valid even more so in socialist states. As we argue in this introduction, and subsequently throughout this Forum, socialist ports were in many ways places of exception: in a political system that preferred closed borders, ports symbolized the ‘gates to the world’; in an economic system that was thoroughly planned…
Rijeka as a socialist port
To understand the distinctiveness of ports under state socialism, it is necessary to shift the focus from the built environment to flows of people, goods, knowledge and capital. In so doing, this article examines the operation of Yugoslavia's main shipping line, Jugolinija, from its inception in 1947 until 1960. This enterprise was based in the port of Rijeka, with both firm and port experiencing rapid growth during this period. The impact of sta…
L’expérience française des Balkans
The Potential of Locative Mobile Apps for Telling New Stories About Contested Cities
This article describes the design of a locative mobile phone app, Rijeka Fiume in Flux, for exploring the past of Rijeka, a city that was historically contested, first between Hungary and Croatia in the 19th century, and then between Italy and Yugoslavia in the 20th century. It evaluates how successfully it disrupts ethno-national narratives about the city’s identity. Modelled on experiential learning and polyvocality, the app seeks to share hist…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Communism (5 works) · Socialism (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works)