LEADER 03219nam 22005413u 450 001 9910787728203321 005 20230126212201.0 010 $a0-203-68777-9 010 $a1-134-43711-0 010 $a0-203-42133-7 010 $a1-134-43712-9 010 $a1-280-05770-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000519502 035 $a(EBL)200179 035 $a(OCoLC)437060239 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200179 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000519502 100 $a20140217d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe End of Tradition?$b[electronic resource] 210 $aHoboken $cTaylor and Francis$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-29040-6 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a6 The Tensed Embrace of Tourism and Traditional Environments: Exclusionary Practices in Cancu?n, 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 330 $aRooted 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 606 $aGlobalization - Political aspects 606 $aGlobalization - Political aspects 606 $aGlobalization - Social aspects 606 $aTradition (Philosophy) 606 $aTradition (Philosophy) 615 4$aGlobalization - Political aspects. 615 4$aGlobalization - Political aspects. 615 4$aGlobalization - Social aspects. 615 4$aTradition (Philosophy). 615 4$aTradition (Philosophy). 676 $a148 676 $a307.3 700 $aAlsayyad$b Nezar$0643844 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787728203321 996 $aThe End of Tradition$93724487 997 $aUNINA