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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252721903321

Autore

Balibrea Mari Paz

Titolo

The Global Cultural Capital : Addressing the Citizen and Producing the City in Barcelona / / by Mari Paz Balibrea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-53596-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 311 p. 3 illus.)

Collana

The Contemporary City, , 2634-5463

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human geography

Cultural studies

Urban geography

Sociology, Urban

Culture

Human Geography

Cultural Studies

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Urban Studies/Sociology

Sociology of Culture

Barcelona (Spain) Civilization

Barcelona (Spain) Social life and customs

Barcelona (Spain) Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION. Still Paying Homage to Barcelona -- PART 1. IN THEORY -- Chapter 1. The Subject of Culture -- PART 2. TAMING THE POLITICAL CITIZEN -- Chapter 2. Culture is to the Social Materialization of Democracy as the Critical Subject is to Democratic Citizenship -- Chapter 3. Building Participatory Measures -- PART 3. THE OLYMPIC FRAMEWORK -- Chapter 4. Working for the City Image -- Chapter 5. Exercising Democratic Citizenship -- apter="" 11.="" barça="" in="" new="" millenium .

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in



defining the notion of urban citizenship in Barcelona since 1979. Through analysis of official documents, municipal publicity campaigns, sport – including the Olympic Games and Barcelona F.C – and film, Balibrea makes sense of the city as a global cultural destination and reveals how such transformation impacts local inhabitants. Scrutinizing municipal discourses on culture from the late 1970s, this interdisciplinary work unveils how ideas of the function and nature of citizenship articulate changing definitions of the city, from model to brand. Over the course of topics such as: tourism, social democracy and urban regeneration, Balibrea constructs an original argument for how the Barcelona image mobilizes neoliberal fantasies of subject transformation. A wide-ranging study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology and cultural studies. .