03125nam 22005174a 450 991081077680332120200520144314.00-203-68777-91-134-43711-00-203-42133-71-134-43712-91-280-05770-X(CKB)2670000000519502(EBL)200179(OCoLC)437060239(MiAaPQ)EBC200179(EXLCZ)99267000000051950220030814d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe end of tradition? /edited by Nezar AlSayyadLondon ;New York Routledge20041 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-29040-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-257) and index.The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad -- Tradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs -- The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell -- Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy -- Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke -- The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer -- Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal -- Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller -- Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha -- The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu -- Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.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 aTradition (Philosophy)GlobalizationSocial aspectsGlobalizationPolitical aspectsTradition (Philosophy)GlobalizationSocial aspects.GlobalizationPolitical aspects.148AlSayyad Nezar643844MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810776803321The End of Tradition3995528UNINA