Selling ethnicity urban cultural politics in the Americas /
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. The work argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architectur...
| Автор-организации: | Ebooks Corporation. |
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| Други автори: | Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970- |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2011.
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| Серия: |
Heritage, culture, and identity.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=398136 |
Съдържание:
- 3 Insurrection and Symbolic Work: Graffiti in Oaxaca (Mexico) 2006/2007 as Subversion and Artistic Politics4 Black Day in the White City: Racism and Violence in Sucre; PART II: THE USE OF ETHNICITY IN THE IMAGINEERING OF URBAN LANDSCAPES; Introduction to Part II; 5 Urban Landscapes of Mall-ticulturality: (Retro- )Coloniality, Consumption, and Identity Politics: The Case of the San Luis Shopping Center in Quito; 6 Religion and Culture Set in Stone: A Case Study of the Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit.
- 7 " Ambiguously Ethnic" in Sherman Alexie's Seattle: Re-Imagining Indigenous Identities in the Twenty-First Century8 Against the "Erasure of Memory" in Los Angeles City Planning: Strategies of Re-Ethnicizing LA in Digital Fiction; PART III: ETHNIC HERITAGE AND/OR CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION IN THE CITY; Introduction to Part III; 9 Quito's Historic Center: Heritage of Humanity or of the Market?; 10 "Economically, We Sit on a Cultural Gold Mine": Commodified Multiculturalism and Identity Politics in New Orleans.
- 11 Mobilizing Ethnicity: Yucatecan Maya Professionals in Merida and their Participation in the Cultural and Political Fields12 A City of Newcomers: Narratives of Ethnic Diversity in Vancouver; PART IV: GENTRIFICATION AND THE POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY; Introduction to Part IV; 13 (Re- ) Constructing the Ethnic Neighborhood: Gentrification in the United States and the Longing for a Unique Identity; 14 No-Go Areas and Chic Places: Socio-Spatial Segregation and Stigma in Guadalajara; 15 Spaces of Alterity and Temporal Permanence: The Case of San Francisco's and New York's Chinatowns; index.