The Urban Enigma - Couverture souple

Livre 7 sur 9: New Politics of Autonomy

VEGLIO, SIMONE

 
9781786613899: The Urban Enigma
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1786613891 ISBN 13 : 9781786613899
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020

Synopsis

This book explores how Latin America indicated an autonomous form of postcolonialism that was marked by the production of multiple conceptualisations of time. The analysis particularly focuses on iconic urban transformations in capital cities such as Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Brasilia, diachronically, and investigates each case's specific representations of past, present, and future. By exploring these three episodes, the book shows how Latin America's postcolonialism involved specific spatial dynamics that were inherently working over global socio-political geographies resulting from the legacy of a "long" colonial imagination. The text is divided into two parts.

The first part discusses some theoretical questions concerning the very conceptualization of Latin American space and the importance of exploring a genealogy of its urban geographies. The second part analyses the themes proposed through the discussion of the "materiality" of specific historical examples. The section delves into urban transformations in the aforementioned capital cities and focuses on how iconic material forms are able to encapsulate the main socio-political features defining each country's post-colonial project.

The book aims to depict a historical geography capable of describing how controversial relations between power and knowledge had materialised in the shapes of the urban environment and had iconically contributed to the multifaceted production of the global area known as Latin America. Without any pretension to offer an all-embracing perspective, the book discusses the Latin America experience within the broader question concerning the genealogy of global socio-political geographies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Simone Vegliò is a PhD Researcher in Geography at King's College London.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786613891
ISBN 13 
9781786613899
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
198
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781786613882: The Urban Enigma: Time, Autonomy, and Postcolonial Transformations in Latin America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1786613883 ISBN 13 :  9781786613882
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020
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