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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463467103321

Autore

Alsayyad Nezar

Titolo

The End of Tradition? [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

148

307.3

Soggetti

Globalization - Political aspects

Globalization - Social aspects

Tradition (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The End of Tradition?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Illustration credits and sources; Contributors; 1 The End of Tradition, or the Tradition of Endings?; I. Traditions of the Modern; 2 Tradition is (not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization; 3 The Tradition of the End: Global Capitalism and the Contemporary Spaces of Apocalypse; 4 Nostalgias of the Modern; II. Invented Landscapes; 5 Nature and Tradition at the Border: Landscaping the End of the Nation State

6 The Tensed Embrace of Tourism and Traditional Environments: Exclusionary Practices in Cancún, Cuba, and Southern Florida7 Architecture and the Production of Postcard Images: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba; III. Programmes of Tradition; 8 Tradition as a Means to the End of Tradition: Farmers' Houses in Italy's Fascist-Era New Towns; 9 Cultural Identity and Architectural Image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town; 10 The Latency of Tradition: On the Vicissitudes of Walls in Contemporary China; 11 Seizing Locality in Jerusalem; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his



introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter the book is divided into three parts. The three chapters in part I explore the inextricable link between 'tradition' and 'modern', revealing the geopolitical implications of this link. Part II looks at tradition as a process of invention a