Postmodern Cities And Spaces

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Postmodern Cities And Spaces

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Author : Sophie Watson
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1995-02-27

Postmodern Cities And Spaces written by Sophie Watson and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-27 with Social Science categories.

This pioneering and thought-provoking book looks at the influences of discourses of the postmodern on thinking about spatiality, contemporary cities and questions of power in urban life.

Los Angeles As Postmodern Space

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Author : Markus Widmer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-11

Los Angeles As Postmodern Space written by Markus Widmer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Essay from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Read the City - Read the Text, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Edward W. Soja called Los Angeles 'the quintessential postmodern metropolis'. This, however, shall not be the premise of my argument in this essay, because of the obvious danger of circularity. Yet I will use postmodern critics and compare my findings to postmodern models of culture, space and society. I will not discuss the term postmodernism itself, simply because the range of this essay does not allow my entering this ongoing debate. The term will be used as denoting both a period, beginning, for my purposes, in the 1960s, and a theory of cultural tendencies in contemporary life. For this essay, I will assume that postmodernism is a fact, a part of everyday reality, and that it differs substantially from modernism. The main body of this essay will consist of a discussion of the fundamental factors which define Los Angeles as postmodern space. I will focus on particularities that distinguish Los Angeles from other cities, most of all from those which have not yet crossed the threshold of postmodernity. Firstly, I will investigate the geographical instability of the city; the fact that it is threatened to be annihilated by natural forces such as earthquakes and the desert. Secondly, I will address the idea of the city as a desert, its horizontality, its vastness, its lack of centre. Thirdly, the structure on this flat surface will be addressed; the freeways as an arterial network, and the structure of segregating walls, both literal and metaphorical. Finally, I will conclude by investigating the parallels between the idea of instability that underlies all of the factors I discuss, and the notion of the unstable in postmodernism.

Urban Space And Representation

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Author : Maria Balshaw
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2000

Urban Space And Representation written by Maria Balshaw and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.

An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city in literary, film and cultural studies.

Space Culture And Power

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Author : Ayşe Öncü
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Space Culture And Power written by Ayşe Öncü and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.

Large cities in both the North and the South are caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and localization. This work looks at how ethnic minorities, tribal groupings and marginalized subcultures in urban areas appropriate contemporary discourses - of consumerism, Islam, human rights - to voice new cultural alternatives. Through a variety of cities, including Beirut, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul, Manila and Singapore, it explores how social and cultural boundaries are renegotiated as new social networks of global trade and finance create new opportunity spaces. It looks at the political agendas and strategies of groups who mobilize to seize upon these openings, and aims to show how the global is translated by different urban groups into practices which transform physical, social and cultural spaces."

Environment And Planning

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Environment And Planning written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Electronic journals categories.

International interdisciplinary journal discussing the relations between Society and Space. Space is broadly conceived: from landscapes of the body to global geographies; from cyberspace to old growth forests; as metaphorical and material; as theoretical construct and empirical fact. Covers both practical politics and the abstractions of social theory.

Space Spaces And Spacing

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Author : Weng Choy Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Space Spaces And Spacing written by Weng Choy Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.

Queers In Space

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Author : Gordon Brent Ingram
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Queers In Space written by Gordon Brent Ingram and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.

This book explores the interactions between queer identity, experience, and activism and a range of communal and public spaces.

Bodies Of Evidence

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Author : Amanda C. Seaman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-02-28

Bodies Of Evidence written by Amanda C. Seaman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.

This is an examination of the recent boom of Japanese women's detective fiction and the ways in which five contemporary authors critically engage with a variety of social issues and concerns: consumerism and the crisis of identity, sexual violence and harassment, and motherhood.

Extinct Lands Scarred Bodies

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Author : Mary Patricia Brady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Extinct Lands Scarred Bodies written by Mary Patricia Brady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American literature categories.

Cultural Studies

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Author : Chris Barker
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 2000-05-15

Cultural Studies written by Chris Barker and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-15 with Social Science categories.

This comprehensive, self-contained introduction to the theory, practice and core issues of cultural studies focuses on particular issues of contemporary interest, including ideology, language, gender, race and identity.