Title & Author:

The end of tradition? / edited by Nezar AlSayyad.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xi, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-257) and index.
The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad -- Tradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs -- The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell -- Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy -- Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke -- The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer -- Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal -- Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller -- Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha -- The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu -- Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.

Summary:

Rooted in real-world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition. In his introduction, Nezar AlSayyad discusses the meanings of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter the book is divided into three parts.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415290406
9780415290401
0415290414 (pbk.)
9780415290418 (pbk.)
9780203421338
0203421337

Subject:

Tradition (Philosophy)
Globalization Social aspects.
Globalization Political aspects.
Tradition.
Mondialisation Aspect social.
Mondialisation Aspect politique.
traditionalism.
Globalisierung
Philosophie
Gebruiken.
Moderniteit.
Het Verleden.
Ruimtelijke aspecten.
Landschappen.
Bouwkunst.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

AlSayyad, Nezar.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231094
Call No.: B105.T7 E5 2004
Copy: pbk.
Status: Available