Andrew Herscher
Biographic Data
| ID | 91900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Herscher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Herscher |
| SIGNATURE | HERSCHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism
Emerging in British agricultural discourse in the seventeenth century, the term blight moved from agriculture to culture, and so from countryside to city, in the context of the industrializing American city of the early twentieth century. This city housed increasingly large populations of reserve labor and provided increasingly large spaces to accommodate that population. Defined as “blight,” the spaces occupied by reserve labor were expelled fro…
A Discussion on the Global and Universal
October 01 2015 A Discussion on the Global and Universal Daniel Bertrand Monk, Daniel Bertrand Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Duke University Press, 2002) as well other studies on t…
Surveillant Witnessing
In the early 2000s, human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) began to avail themselves of newly commercialized satellite imagery in their advocacy efforts. In human rights contexts, satellite imaging vastly extends capacities to detect and respond to abuses of human rights across the globe, especially in spaces that are seemingly inaccessible to rights advocates. In this essay, I explore human rights satellite imaging as an extension of …
Points of No Return
"Preserve it: it's yours!" In Albanian, Serbian, and English, this message— or, more precisely, this command—appeared on billboards throughout Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, in the summer of 2004. (See Plate 8.1.) The billboards displayed what the people of Kosovo ought to preserve in a series of twelve images. Each image showed a historical site: the Dečani and Gračanica monasteries, the Sinan Pasha mosque, an Ottoman-era konak (mansion), the…
Urbicide, Urbanism, and Urban Destruction in Kosovo
Urbicide, Urbanism, and Urban Destruction in Kosovo Andrew Herscher In the early 1990s, when the Baroque-era city centers of Vukovar and Osijek in Croatia lay in ruins, after Dubrovnik had been shelled, while the Ottoman-era Old Town of Mostar in Bosnia was being demolished, and in the midst of the siege of Sarajevo, the term "urbicide" emerged in post-Yugoslavia to describe the destruction of these cities.1 Underlying the deployment of the term …
Urban formations of difference
The devastation of the historical cities of the former Yugoslavia, perpetrated by the contending parties in the civil war, was regarded in Western Europe as an act of destruction against European cities. However, the cultural rhetoric of the European identity of cities, such as Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, and Vukovar displays a stark contrast with the European Union's lack of political engagement with the future of Bosnia and Croatia. This rhetoric is a…
The Media(tion) of Building
The Language of Damage
April 01 2002 The Language of Damage Andrew Herscher Andrew Herscher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew Herscher Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2002 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Grey Room (2002) (7): 68–71. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638102760104590 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo View…
Monument and Crime
While international accords prohibit the targeting of cultural artifacts during warfare, this legal protection implies that war is not waged over questions of culture and thus, that cultural artifacts can unproblematically be distinguished from legitimate military targets.' The 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo, however, was sanctioned by recourse to little else than culture; competing versions of Kosovo's cultural identity were staged as the bases fo…
Surveillant Witnessing
In the early 2000s, human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) began to avail themselves of newly commercialized satellite imagery in their advocacy efforts. In human rights contexts, satellite imaging vastly extends capacities to detect and respond to abuses of human rights across the globe, especially in spaces that are seemingly inaccessible to rights advocates. In this essay, I explore human rights satellite imaging as an extension of …
Monument and Crime
While international accords prohibit the targeting of cultural artifacts during warfare, this legal protection implies that war is not waged over questions of culture and thus, that cultural artifacts can unproblematically be distinguished from legitimate military targets.' The 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo, however, was sanctioned by recourse to little else than culture; competing versions of Kosovo's cultural identity were staged as the bases fo…
The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism
Emerging in British agricultural discourse in the seventeenth century, the term blight moved from agriculture to culture, and so from countryside to city, in the context of the industrializing American city of the early twentieth century. This city housed increasingly large populations of reserve labor and provided increasingly large spaces to accommodate that population. Defined as “blight,” the spaces occupied by reserve labor were expelled fro…
A Discussion on the Global and Universal
October 01 2015 A Discussion on the Global and Universal Daniel Bertrand Monk, Daniel Bertrand Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Duke University Press, 2002) as well other studies on t…
Monument and Crime
While international accords prohibit the targeting of cultural artifacts during warfare, this legal protection implies that war is not waged over questions of culture and thus, that cultural artifacts can unproblematically be distinguished from legitimate military targets.' The 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo, however, was sanctioned by recourse to little else than culture; competing versions of Kosovo's cultural identity were staged as the bases fo…
The Language of Damage
April 01 2002 The Language of Damage Andrew Herscher Andrew Herscher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew Herscher Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2002 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Grey Room (2002) (7): 68–71. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638102760104590 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo View…
The Media(tion) of Building
Urban formations of difference
The devastation of the historical cities of the former Yugoslavia, perpetrated by the contending parties in the civil war, was regarded in Western Europe as an act of destruction against European cities. However, the cultural rhetoric of the European identity of cities, such as Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, and Vukovar displays a stark contrast with the European Union's lack of political engagement with the future of Bosnia and Croatia. This rhetoric is a…
Urbicide, Urbanism, and Urban Destruction in Kosovo
Urbicide, Urbanism, and Urban Destruction in Kosovo Andrew Herscher In the early 1990s, when the Baroque-era city centers of Vukovar and Osijek in Croatia lay in ruins, after Dubrovnik had been shelled, while the Ottoman-era Old Town of Mostar in Bosnia was being demolished, and in the midst of the siege of Sarajevo, the term "urbicide" emerged in post-Yugoslavia to describe the destruction of these cities.1 Underlying the deployment of the term …
Points of No Return
"Preserve it: it's yours!" In Albanian, Serbian, and English, this message— or, more precisely, this command—appeared on billboards throughout Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, in the summer of 2004. (See Plate 8.1.) The billboards displayed what the people of Kosovo ought to preserve in a series of twelve images. Each image showed a historical site: the Dečani and Gračanica monasteries, the Sinan Pasha mosque, an Ottoman-era konak (mansion), the…
Surveillant Witnessing
In the early 2000s, human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) began to avail themselves of newly commercialized satellite imagery in their advocacy efforts. In human rights contexts, satellite imaging vastly extends capacities to detect and respond to abuses of human rights across the globe, especially in spaces that are seemingly inaccessible to rights advocates. In this essay, I explore human rights satellite imaging as an extension of …
A Discussion on the Global and Universal
October 01 2015 A Discussion on the Global and Universal Daniel Bertrand Monk, Daniel Bertrand Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Duke University Press, 2002) as well other studies on t…
The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism
Emerging in British agricultural discourse in the seventeenth century, the term blight moved from agriculture to culture, and so from countryside to city, in the context of the industrializing American city of the early twentieth century. This city housed increasingly large populations of reserve labor and provided increasingly large spaces to accommodate that population. Defined as “blight,” the spaces occupied by reserve labor were expelled fro…
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