Book ID: CBB424641704

Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place (2016)

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Wendel, Delia Duong Ba (Editor)
Aidoo, Fallon Samuels (Editor)


Harvard University Graduate School of Design


Publication Date: 2016
Edition Details: Book Series: Harvard design studies
Physical Details: xii + 416
Language: English

Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. In academic and popular discourse, spaces tend to serve as passive containers, symbols, or geographical coordinates for political theories, ideologies, and histories. By contrast, the essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. Each chapter features original research on the spatial production of conflict and consensus, which ranges from exclusion and incarceration to reclamation and reconciliation. By focusing on the architects and spaces of political empowerment, the anthology fills a critical gap in studies of space and politics in anthropology, architectural history, conflict studies, geography, public policy, science/technology studies, and urban planning. These essays also demonstrate the global, historical, and contemporary relevance of thinking spatially for political action. Altogether, this multidisciplinary collection puts forward various spatial epistemologies that conceptualize, concretize, and contest forms of spatial politics.

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Review Purcell, Darren (October 2017) Review of "Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place". Technology and Culture (pp. 1074-1076). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stefano Pagliara
Ilaria Nieri
Tania Salvi
Luca Bonardi
Bertini, Maria Augusta
Michela Chiti
Concepts
Landscape; landscapes
Geography
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Environmental history
Environment
Water resource management
Time Periods
Renaissance
Medieval
Ancient
Early modern
19th century
20th century
Places
Italy
Arno River
Alps (Europe)
Argentina
United States
North Africa
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