CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Winkler, Georg Matthias |
|---|---|
| Title | Revolution in the city: Public space and political discourse in Pest-Buda and Prague 1848 |
| Summary | The present thesis investigates the revolution of 1848 in the cities of Pest-Buda and Prague from a comparative perspective by conceptualising the first phase of ‘1848’ between March and June as a decidedly urban event. Through applying Jürgen Habermas’ conception of the ‘public sphere’ to the actual settings of these cities, it analyzes the setup and maintenance of the public discourse on the basis of a thorough examination of the local German press. Three major issues are tackled: the first section contains a discussion of the socio-structural characteristics of both cities and delineates the ways and means through which the urban discourse was generated and upheld in the immediate years before ‘1848’. Under the notions of first ‘fraternization’ and then ‘conflict’ the second section follows the discursive development mirrored in press from a chronological perspective and outlines and evaluates similarities and differences of both cases by comparison. The third chapter adds the spatial aspect to the narrative. It delineates an urban topography of the revolution, analyzes mechanisms of manipulation of the urban space in the course of events, e.g. it addresses the manifold processes of inscribing meanings into the cityscape through renaming and rededicating public places, and finally drafts a symbolic topography of the revolution in the urban realms of Pest-Buda and Prague. |
| Supervisor | Gero, Andras; Janowski, Maciej |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/winkler_georg-matthias.pdf |
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