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The Debasing of Myth: The Privatization of Titanic Memory in Designing the ‘Post-conflict’ City

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This article argues that the newly relaunched ‘Belfast Titanic story’ puts too much emphasis on extravagant claims for the real ship Titanic and thereby overly commercializes design and other public space issues in Belfast such that the Titanic of representation and its profound mythic status in western culture is debased. This reality in a ‘post-conflict’ city, where an ethnic war of attrition between competing identity claims forecloses mature cultural dialogue, is regretted.

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  • William J.V. Neill, 2011. "The Debasing of Myth: The Privatization of Titanic Memory in Designing the ‘Post-conflict’ City," Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 67-86.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:16:y:2011:i:1:p:67-86
    DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2011.521014
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    1. Philip Boland & Stephen McKay, 2021. "Personality association and celebrity museumification of George Best (with nods to John Lennon)," Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 17(4), pages 409-419, December.

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