Title & Author:

Giving ground : the politics of propinquity / edited by Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin.

Publication:

New York : Verso, 1999.

Description:

312 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

S ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: traffic in democracy / Michael Sorkin --- I. The Global, Intimate, and the Empty. 1. Three, two, one, contact: Times Square Red, 1998 / Samuel R. Delany -- 2. Globalization and the formation of claims / Saskia Sassen -- 3. 'New urbanism' an its discontents / Dean Maccannell --- II. Borderlands. 4. Save as Jerusalems / Ariella Azoulay -- 5. Algeria, France: one nation or two? / Etienne Balibar --- III. Urban Guerillas. 6. Reasonable urbanism / Rosalyn Deutsche -- 7. The compulsion to repeat femininity / Lauren Berlant -- 8. The tomb of perseverance: on Antigone / Joan Copjec -- 9. Antigone agonistes: urban guerilla or guerilla urbanism? The Red Army faction, Germany in autumn and Death game / Thomas Elsaesser.

Summary:

This text is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical convergence is seen by some to be altering the experience of urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of globalization push towards conditions of homogenization and deterritorialization, while on the other, a surging politics of identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and ignites violent persecutions. The covert relations between these two phenomena is the focus of this volume of essays. The contributors seek to address a number of broad questions, including: what is the role and limit of urban space in the expression of group and individual rights and desires?; do democratic social relations require spatial propinquity?; what, if any, are the characteristics of democratic urban space?; and what role does the individuality of cities play in the production of political culture?

ISBN:

1859848923 (cloth)
9781859848920 (cloth)
1859841341 (pbk.)
9781859841341 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Political culture.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.

Added entries:

Copjec, Joan.
Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020.
S (London, England) ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204705
Call No.: HT166 .G575 1999
Status: Available