1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450454203321

Autore

Sobchack Vivian Carol

Titolo

Carnal thoughts [[electronic resource] ] : embodiment and moving image culture / / Vivian Sobchack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004

ISBN

0-520-93782-1

9786613303943

1-283-30394-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/01/5

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Sensible Scenes -- PART II. Responsible Visions -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a broad range of popular sources to explore bodily experience in contemporary, moving-image culture. She examines how, through the conflation of cinema and surgery, we've all "had our eyes done"; why we are "moved" by the movies; and the different ways in which we inhabit photographic, cinematic, and electronic space. Carnal Thoughts provides a lively and engaging challenge to the mind/body split by demonstrating that the process of "making sense" requires an irreducible collaboration between our thoughts and our senses.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300486503321

Autore

De Satgé Rick

Titolo

Urban Planning in the Global South : Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space / / by Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319694962

3319694960

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Disciplina

307.1216091724

Soggetti

Economic development

Political planning

Sociology, Urban

Africa - Politics and government

Human geography

Ethnology

Development Studies

Public Policy

Urban Sociology

African Politics

Human Geography

Ethnography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Conflicting Rationalities and Southern Planning Theory -- Chapter 3. African Cities: Planning Ambitions and Planning Realities -- Chapter 4. Struggles for Shelter and Survival in Post-Apartheid South African Cities: The Case of Langa -- Chapter 5. Voices From and Within the State -- Chapter 6. Conflicting Rationalities in the N2 Gateway Project: Voices from Langa -- Chapter 7. Implications for Southern Planning Theory and Practice -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

'Refusing to be drawn in by the universalising claims of planning



theory, de Satgé and Watson are as attentive to the micro-politics of everyday life as to the global dynamics shaping the broader territory, offering new insights into the concept of 'conflicting rationalities'. This book offers a springboard in the vital development of southern planning theory and practice.' - Colin Marx, University College London, UK   'This path breaking book will profoundly shape social science and planning debates about how urban planning, development programmes and governmentality become enmeshed in everyday practices of survival in poor neighbourhoods in the global South.' - Steven Robins, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa   This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South. de Satgé and Watson advance a Southern perspective on planning theory identifying how key precepts informing urban planning theory and practice must change fundamentally if social conditions are to improve in these settings. They argue that such changes will require an understanding of the 'conflict of rationalities' at the heart of the encounters between state planning norms and those struggling to survive in informal settlements. The complex nature of these contestations is explored through an in-depth case study of Langa, a township in Cape Town, South Africa. This reveals the many layers that frame the conflicts between the ambitions of state planners, shack-dwellers and township residents, and examines how these have shaped the changing dynamics of power and permeated all state-society engagements in the planning process.   Richard de Satgé is Director of Research at Phuhlisani, a non-profit company. He has 40 years' experience working in NGOs across southern Africa as an educator and researcher with a focus on land, livelihoods, poverty and informality.   Vanessa Watson is Professor in Planning at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a university Fellow. She conducts research through the African Centre for Cities. Her research over the last 35 years has focused on urban planning in the global South.