Description
Book SynopsisAlternative 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 ca
Table of Contents
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
