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Book SynopsisCulture, 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.
Trade Review“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 Anglia
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines Juan Antonio Suárez 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 Suárez 3 Blinking Spaces: Koyaanisqatsi’s Cinematic City Iván Villarmea Álvarez 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 comió el norte: Space, Globalization and Latino Art as Strategy of Resistance Juan A. Tarancón 7 Music, Body, and City: Joy Division’s Positive Negative Space J. Rubén Valdés Miyares PART TWO Reading spaces of intimacy 8 Mediatized Spaces of Intimacy John Storey 9 Queering Prison Space in HBO’s Oz Cornelia Wächter 10 The Home as a Rough Habitat in The Wire Elisa Hernández 11 Cosmopolitan Space and Generic Boundaries in Hollywood Overseas Romances Manuela Ruiz REFERENCES INDEX ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
