Sites Of Modernity
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Sites Of Modernity
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Author : Wasana Wongsurawat
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Sites Of Modernity written by Wasana Wongsurawat and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with History categories.
This book investigates, compares and contrasts the experience of entering into and engaging in modernity and the modern era in many parts of the Asian continent. It focuses on the coming into being, development, and transformation of major urban centers from Tokyo to Mumbai from the late 19th century to the present, providing a broad overview of this crucial period of transition in Asia, not only from diverse geographical and historical perspectives, but also incorporating a broad range of further disciplines.
Sites Of Modernity Places Of Risk
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Author : Martin H. Geyer
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023-07-14
Sites Of Modernity Places Of Risk written by Martin H. Geyer and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-14 with History categories.
“Places of risk” and “sites of modernity” refer not merely to physical locations, but also objects and institutions that stand at the center of contemporary debates on security and risk. These are social and political domains where energy and infrastructure are produced, where domestic security is pursued and maintained, and where citizens encounter the state in its punitive or monitory roles. Taking a wide view of the period from the 1970s to today, this volume brings together innovative, interdisciplinary case studies of sites of modernity that promise to provide security and safety, yet at the same time are deemed responsible for creating new risks. With a particular contemporary interest in the technocratic changes of security and risk control the contributors to Sites of Modernity — Places of Risk position the 1970s as a turning point in the path from industrial to post-industrial modernity.
The Sacred And Modernity In Urban Spain
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Author : Antonio Cordoba
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-17
The Sacred And Modernity In Urban Spain written by Antonio Cordoba and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while the sacred has been linked to the natural, the rural, mythical past origins, and exemption from historical change. This collection problematizes such clear-cut distinctions as overlaps between the modern urban and the sacred in Spanish culture are explored throughout the volume. Placed in the periphery of Europe, Spain has had a complex relationship with the concept of modernity and commonly understood processes of modernization and secularization, thus offering a unique case-study of the interaction between the modern and the sacred in the city.
Places On The Margin
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Author : Rob Shields
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Places On The Margin written by Rob Shields and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Social Science categories.
The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.
Places On The Margin
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Author : Rob Shields
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1991-01
Places On The Margin written by Rob Shields and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01 with Geographical perception categories.
The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining places on the margin'.
Sites Of Modernity Places Of Risk
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Author : Martin H. Geyer
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023
Sites Of Modernity Places Of Risk written by Martin H. Geyer and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with National security categories.
"Places of risk" and "sites of modernity" refer not merely to physical locations, but also objects and institutions that stand at the center of contemporary debates on security and risk. These are social and political domains where energy and infrastructure are produced, where domestic security is pursued and maintained, and where citizens encounter the state in its punitive or monitory roles. Taking a wide view of the period from the 1970s to today, this volume brings together innovative, interdisciplinary case studies of sites of modernity that promise to provide security and safety, yet at the same time are deemed responsible for creating new risks. With a particular contemporary interest in the technocratic changes of security and risk control the contributors to Sites of Modernity -- Places of Risk position the 1970s as a turning point in the path from industrial to post-industrial modernity.
Modernity And The Unmaking Of Men
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Author : Violeta Schubert
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-08-01
Modernity And The Unmaking Of Men written by Violeta Schubert and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, aging bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualizations of performativity and social presence.
Pirate Modernity
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Author : Ravi Sundaram
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-07-30
Pirate Modernity written by Ravi Sundaram and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and bypass legal technological infrastructures (media, electricity). This pirate culture produces a significant enabling resource for subaltern populations unable to enter the legal city. Equally, this is an unstable world, bringing subaltern populations into the harsh glare of permanent technological visibility, and attacks by urban elites, courts and visceral media industries. The book examines contemporary Delhi from some of these sites: the unmaking of the citys modernist planning design, new technological urban networks that bypass states and corporations, and the tragic experience of the road accident terrifyingly enhanced by technological culture. Pirate Modernity moves between past and present, along with debates in Asia, Africa and Latin America on urbanism, media culture, and everyday life. This pioneering book suggests cities have to be revisited afresh after proliferating media culture. Pirate Modernity boldly draws from urban and cultural theory to open a new agenda for a world after media urbanism.
Ruins Of Modernity
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Author : Julia Hell
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-19
Ruins Of Modernity written by Julia Hell and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-19 with Art categories.
Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized perspective. In the introduction, Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle discuss how European modernity emerged partly through a confrontation with the ruins of the premodern past. Several contributors discuss ideas about ruins developed by philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Georg Simmel, and Walter Benjamin. One contributor examines how W. G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn betrays the ruins erased or forgotten in the Hegelian philosophy of history. Another analyzes the repressed specter of being bombed out of existence that underpins post-Second World War modernist architecture, especially Le Corbusier’s plans for Paris. Still another compares the ways that formerly dominant white populations relate to urban-industrial ruins in Detroit and to colonial ruins in Namibia. Other topics include atomic ruins at a Nevada test site, the connection between the cinema and ruins, the various narratives that have accrued around the Inca ruin of Vilcashuamán, Tolstoy’s response in War and Peace to the destruction of Moscow in the fire of 1812, the Nazis’ obsession with imperial ruins, and the emergence in Mumbai of a new “kinetic city” on what some might consider the ruins of a modernist city. By focusing on the concept of ruin, this collection sheds new light on modernity and its vast ramifications and complexities. Contributors. Kerstin Barndt, Jon Beasley-Murray, Russell A. Berman, Jonathan Bolton, Svetlana Boym, Amir Eshel, Julia Hell, Daniel Herwitz, Andreas Huyssen, Rahul Mehrotra, Johannes von Moltke, Vladimir Paperny, Helen Petrovsky, Todd Presner, Helmut Puff, Alexander Regier, Eric Rentschler, Lucia Saks, Andreas Schönle, Tatiana Smoliarova, George Steinmetz, Jonathan Veitch, Gustavo Verdesio, Anthony Vidler
Cityscapes Of Modernity
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Author : David Frisby
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2001-12-21
Cityscapes Of Modernity written by David Frisby and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-21 with Social Science categories.
The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Frisby seeks to reveal some key features of metropolitan experience in modernity. Among the issues examined are Benjamin's account of the flaneur and its relevance for social investigation and urban detection; Simmel's influential essay on the metropolis; contrasting interpretations of fin-de-siecle Berlin and Vienna by Sombart; the work of Otto Wagner; and the response to the modern metropolis as highlighted in German Expressionism and Weimar Berlin. Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity.
