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In the context of widespread precarity and ongoing crises, it is no surprise ruins have captured much attention in recent years. This book is about a new kind of space, one that is deeply troubling for consumer society: the retail ruin. Jacob C. Miller bridges human geography, archaeology and critical urban studies to offer a starting point for conceptualizing retail ruins. Drawing on fieldnotes and photographs, Miller crafts a hauntological approach informed by the theories of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida to more recent thinking on assemblage, spectacle and the politics of urban space.

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Introduction 1. What Are Retail Ruins? 2. Retail Ruins 3. Spectacle, Haunted Conclusion

Retail Ruins: The Ghosts of Post-Industrial

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      Publisher: Bristol University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9781529225532, 978-1529225532
      ISBN10: 1529225531

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      Book Synopsis
      In the context of widespread precarity and ongoing crises, it is no surprise ruins have captured much attention in recent years. This book is about a new kind of space, one that is deeply troubling for consumer society: the retail ruin. Jacob C. Miller bridges human geography, archaeology and critical urban studies to offer a starting point for conceptualizing retail ruins. Drawing on fieldnotes and photographs, Miller crafts a hauntological approach informed by the theories of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida to more recent thinking on assemblage, spectacle and the politics of urban space.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. What Are Retail Ruins? 2. Retail Ruins 3. Spectacle, Haunted Conclusion

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