LEADER 03817oam 2200505 450 001 9910426045903321 005 20210505194533.0 010 $a981-15-7861-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-7861-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011586155 035 $a(OCoLC)1224141502 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6404800 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-7861-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011586155 100 $a20210505d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUrban awakenings $edisturbance and enchantment in the industrial city /$fSamuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson 210 1$aSingapore :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 255 pages) $cillustrations (chiefly colour) 311 1 $a981-15-7860-5 311 08$aPrint version: 9811578605 9789811578601 (OCoLC)1176319044 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. A disturbed book: bubbles under the throne -- 2. Unsettling the story of disenchantment -- 3. The gentle art of urban tramping -- PART ONE: BC (Before-COVID) -- 4. The ?new world? is old: journeying through deep time -- 5. Descent pathways in a city of gold -- 6. Adrift in the devil?s playground -- 7. Grave matters: death in the liveable city (Part I) -- 8. Cold Lazarus: death in the liveable city (Part II) -- 9. Walking the corridors of consumption -- 10. A riverside ramble to the last hotel: lostworlders welcome -- 11. Guardians of Gandolfo Gardens -- 12. Tramping against extinction: counter-friction to the machine -- 13. The monumental army that marches on the spot -- 14. Sisyphus in the suburbs: pushing the rock -- PART TWO: AC (After-COVID) -- 15. Virtually tramping through post-normal times -- 16. A time for bad poetry -- 17. Shimmering text: re-reading The Plague in the Coronaverse -- 18. Care-full times: suffer the children -- 19. Rewilding the suburbs: CERES as a site of enchantment -- 20. Sojourning through a quiet city: envisioning a prosperous descent -- 21. Glitter and doom: between naïve optimism and despair -- COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER -- 22. An urban politics of enchantment. 330 $aThis book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that ?enchantment? as an affective state is important to ethical and political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of enchantment can give people the impulse to care and engage in an increasingly troubled world, whereas disenchantment can lead to resignation. Applying and extending this theory to the urban landscape, the authors walk their home city with eyes open to the possibility of seeing and experiencing the industrial city in different ways. This unique methodology, described as ?urban tramping?, positions the authors as freethinking freewalkers of the city, encumbered only with the duty to look through the delusions of industrial capitalism towards its troubled, contradictory soul. These urban investigations were disrupted midway by COVID-19, a plague that ended up confirming the book?s central thesis of a fractured modernity vulnerable to various internal contradictions. 606 $aCities and towns 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y21st century 606 $aSociology, Urban$zAustralia$zMelbourne (Vic.) 615 0$aCities and towns. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aSociology, Urban 676 $a307.76 700 $aAlexander$b Samuel$013119 702 $aGleeson$b Brendan 801 0$bCaPaEBR 801 1$bCaPaEBR 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910426045903321 996 $aUrban awakenings$91985656 997 $aUNINA