City in Common - Culture and Community in Buenos Aires

Informationen zum Autor James Scorer is Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Klappentext In this book James Scorer argues that culture remains a force for imagining inclusive urban futures based around what inhabitants of the city have in common. Using Buenos Aires as his case study, Scorer takes the urban commons to be those aspects of the city that are shared and used by its various communities. Exploring a hugely diverse set of works, including literature, film, and comics, and engaging with urban theory, political philosophy, and Latin American cultural studies, City in Common paints a portrait of the city caught between opposing forces. Scorer seeks out alternatives to the current trend in analysis of urban culture to read Buenos Aires purely through the lens of segregation, division, and enclosure. Instead, he argues that urban imaginaries can and often do offer visions of more open communities and more inclusive urban futures.

Product details

• Authors: James Scorer
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781438460574
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6057-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: SUNY Series in Latin American; Suny Latin American and Iberia; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories