
Spectacular Cities
Religion, Landscape, and the Dialectics of Globalization
Ipsita Chatterjee(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2016
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-19-946513-2 (ISBN)
Description
Plenty has been written on globalization to understand what it is. However, scholarship on globalization tends to segment it into either economic globalization in the form of flows of capital, investment, and goods; cultural globalization in the form of fast food, Barbie dolls, and migrant landscapes; or political globalization, in the form of erosion of the nation state. This book explores spectacular landscapes of the Akshardham temples in Gandhinagar and Delhi in India, and Atlanta, Dallas, Houston in the U.S.to understand globalization as it unfolds in a culture-economy synthesis. Adopting Marxian dialectical method, this book explores how culture, economy, and spectacular urban landscapes work in tandem to produce globalization through migrant narratives, migrant temple complexes, Vedic boat rides, and theme park religious complexes. The book therefore is as much an exploration of the dialectical stance in social theory and geography, as it is a Marxist feminist critique of the spectacular commodification of the urban form.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 b/w; 6 colour
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-946513-2 (9780199465132)
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Ipsita Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas.
Author
, Ipsita Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas
Content
PREFACE