LEADER 04182nam 22006615 450 001 9910863294503321 005 20250415191021.0 010 $a9789811578618 010 $a9811578613 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(Perlego)3480624 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011586155 100 $a20201121d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUrban Awakenings $eDisturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City /$fby Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 $cSpringer Singapore$d2020 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 255 pages) $cillustrations (chiefly colour) 311 08$a9789811578601 311 08$a9811578605 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 $aHuman geography 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aEcology 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aUrban Sociology 606 $aEnvironmental Sciences 606 $aSocial Theory 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aUrban Sociology. 615 24$aEnvironmental Sciences. 615 24$aSocial Theory. 676 $a307.76 700 $aAlexander$b Samuel$013119 702 $aGleeson$b Brendan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863294503321 996 $aUrban awakenings$91985656 997 $aUNINA