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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786932703321

Titolo

Marxism and urban culture / / edited by Benjamin Fraser ; foreword by Andy Merrifield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9448-8

0-7391-9158-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

307.7601

Soggetti

Socialism and culture

City and town life

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I: MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITY; 1 The Archive City; 2 Capital, Mobility, and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa's Barrio (1998); II: THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTS; 3 Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg; 4 Sensing Capital; III: CULTURES OF URBAN PROTEST; 5 Psychoprotest; 6 The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students' "Happy and Wicked" Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969; IV: THE HOUSING QUESTION; 7 Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert Silverberg; 8 Red Vienna, Class, and the Common

V: (INTER)NATIONALIZING THE URBAN9 Urban Culture as Passive Revolution; 10 The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and Los Angeles; Index; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Marxism and Urban Culture takes a broad view of Marx's legacy and-largely in the spirit of Marxist urban geographers Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey-applies that legacy to cultural practices and products from across the globe. Cities explored include Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, and Vienna.