Culture, Space, and Power
Blurred Lines
Published on 9. December 2015
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-1-4985-2165-9 (ISBN)
Description
Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore how recent trends in globalization, nationalism, city design, and ruralist revival yield particular spatial morphologies. The second part of the volume investigates spaces of privacy and togetherness, including traditional settings for intimacy, such as the home, and enclosure, such as the prison, or the virtual locations created through digital media (cellphones, tablets and computers). At the same time, despite the two-part division into public and private, the volume stresses their connection and interdependency: the extent, that is, to which broader spatial configurations affect private, day-to-day practices and locations.
Reviews / Votes
"An impressive and wide-ranging set of international essays interrogating the idea and experience of space from theoretical, media, and cultural perspectives. An insistent consideration of questions of power and (geo-)politics informs all readings. Highly recommended." -- George McKay, University of East AngliaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-2165-9 (9781498521659)
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Blurred Lines
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Blurred Lines
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Persons
David Walton is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Murcia.
Juan A. Suarez teaches American studies at the University of Murcia.
Juan A. Suarez teaches American studies at the University of Murcia.
Content
Introduction: Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines
Juan Antonio Suarez and David Walton
PART ONE
Reading urban and national space
1 Place, Space and the Politics of Memory
Chris Weedon
2 Queer Space and Cultural Memory in the Films of Barbara Hammer, Katrina Del Mar, and Fadia Abboud
Juan A Suarez
3 Blinking Spaces: Koyaanisqatsi's Cinematic City
Ivan Villarmea Alvarez
4 The Immaterial Factory and the Metropolitan Body: Toni Negri, Rem Koolhaas, and the Sociology of Associations
Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel
5 Land as a Space for Discursive Loyalty: On the Public Sphere and Immobility during China's Modernization
G. Kentak Son
6 Se los comio el norte: Space, Globalization and Latino Art as Strategy of Resistance
Juan A. Tarancon
7 Music, Body, and City: Joy Division's Positive Negative Space
J. Ruben Valdes Miyares
PART TWO
Reading spaces of intimacy
8 Mediatized Spaces of Intimacy
John Storey
9 Queering Prison Space in HBO's Oz
Cornelia Waechter
10 The Home as a Rough Habitat in The Wire
Elisa Hernandez
11 Cosmopolitan Space and Generic Boundaries in Hollywood Overseas Romances
Manuela Ruiz
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Juan Antonio Suarez and David Walton
PART ONE
Reading urban and national space
1 Place, Space and the Politics of Memory
Chris Weedon
2 Queer Space and Cultural Memory in the Films of Barbara Hammer, Katrina Del Mar, and Fadia Abboud
Juan A Suarez
3 Blinking Spaces: Koyaanisqatsi's Cinematic City
Ivan Villarmea Alvarez
4 The Immaterial Factory and the Metropolitan Body: Toni Negri, Rem Koolhaas, and the Sociology of Associations
Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel
5 Land as a Space for Discursive Loyalty: On the Public Sphere and Immobility during China's Modernization
G. Kentak Son
6 Se los comio el norte: Space, Globalization and Latino Art as Strategy of Resistance
Juan A. Tarancon
7 Music, Body, and City: Joy Division's Positive Negative Space
J. Ruben Valdes Miyares
PART TWO
Reading spaces of intimacy
8 Mediatized Spaces of Intimacy
John Storey
9 Queering Prison Space in HBO's Oz
Cornelia Waechter
10 The Home as a Rough Habitat in The Wire
Elisa Hernandez
11 Cosmopolitan Space and Generic Boundaries in Hollywood Overseas Romances
Manuela Ruiz
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS