
Alternative Spaces/Transformative Places
Democratizing Unruliness in an Age of Austerity
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 15. January 2020
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4331-5756-1 (ISBN)
Description
Alternative Spaces/Transformative Places addresses the rise of unruly spaces in society, as well as communicative strategies that citizens and activists may use to democratize them. With the widespread use of austerity measures by governments and cities, unruly spaces are an increasing fixture in our modern world. Cities such as Flint and Detroit in Michigan, Berlin in Germany, and even regions of rural America, have all been damaged by the neoliberal policies that have left cityscapes and physical environments altered and unrecognizable. We now understand that unruliness has become a constant in contemporary globalized society.
As such austerity has degraded infrastructure, depleted local economies, and poisoned neighborhoods, we feel citizens must be empowered to reclaim such unruly spaces themselves. The book explores different strategies for the democratization of such spaces in urban environments, and the potential and problems of each. Such strategies can create alternative perceptions and alter pathways through those spaces-even connect communities hidden from one another.
Students and scholars of urban communication and community activism, as well as human geography, will find the concepts and strategies explored in this book useful. The discussions related to austerity measures provide context for many contemporary neighborhoods and communities that have come to be neglected, while the chapters concerning unruly spaces provide explanations for the difficulty with such neglected or degraded environments. Finally, the illustration of different communicative strategies for the democratization of unruly spaces will demonstrate the possibilities for empowerment within communities that face such problems.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
6 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
537 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-5756-1 (9781433157561)
DOI
10.3726/b14149
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

Joshua D. Atkinson | Clayton Rosati
Alternative Spaces/Transformative Places
Democratizing Unruliness in an Age of Austerity
E-Book
03/2020
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€105.99
Available for download

Clayton Rosati | Joshua D. Atkinson
Alternative Spaces/Transformative Places
Democratizing Unruliness in an Age of Austerity
E-Book
03/2020
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€105.99
Available for download
Persons
Joshua D. Atkinson and Clayton Rosati are associate professors in the School of Media & Communication at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Atkinson's research examines alternative media and social activism, while Rosati's endeavors examine the human geographies of urban development, media industries, and anti-poverty advocacy.
Content
List of Figures - Foreword: Crisis, Austerity, & the Pleasures of Cruelty - Unruly Spaces, Cityscape & Communicative Cities - The Enclave at Wildcat Hollow - The Hidden Geographies of Flint - BART, Cairo & Spaces of Exception - Memory Revival in Mannheim - Memory Modification at the DDR Museum - Diffused Intertextual Production - Standpoint Performance Within the Intertext - Creative Narrative Appropriation - Concluding Remarks - Index