Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World

ISBN-13: 9780761961222 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str.

Mike Featherstone; Scott Lash

Opis

What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? This book explores the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city.

Spis treści

Introduction - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash
PART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE
Growth and Failure - Richard Sennett
The New Political Economy and Its Culture
Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality - Timothy W Luke
The Political Economy of Cyberspace
Digital Networks and Power - Saskia Sassen
PART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPING
The Postmodern Urban Condition - Michael Dear and Steven Flusty
Roaming the City - Hilary Radner
Proper Women in Improper Places
PART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACE
Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner
Modernity and Contingency
Moving Culture - Ron Eyerman
Radiated Identities - Barbara Adam
In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices
PART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATION
Triumphalist Geographies - Michael J Shapiro
The Anti-Reflexivist Revolution - G[um]oran Dahl
On the Affirmationism of the New Right
PART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACE
Transculturality - Wolfgang Welsch
The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today
Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights - Boaventura de Sousa Santos
The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush - Jonathan Friedman
Narrating the Postcolonial - Couze Venn

O autorze

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society.