Urban Enigmatime Autonomy Amp Ppb - Time, Autonomy, and Postcolonial Transformations in Latin America

The book shows how the question of time was crucial for the specific articulation of Latin America's postcolonialism.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Time, Space, Hierarchies: The Production of Latin America

Chapter 2. The City as an Archive

Chapter 3. Latin America's Urban Geographies: The Apogee of the Twentieth Century's Urban Enigma

Chapter 4. Buenos Aires, A European Door in The Americas: The 'Argentine Pavilion' and The Making of The Nation (1880-1946)

Chapter 5. Post-Revolutionary Mexico City: The Palace of Public Education and The Perfect Race (1920-1960)

Chapter 6. Brasília, a Futuristic Dream: Three Powers Plaza and the Modernist Democracy (1956-1964)

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the author

Simone Vegliò has just completed a PhD in the Department of Geography at King's College London. He is co-editing a special issue on 'Modern-Colonial Geographies in Latin America' (2019) in Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) and has pub-lished a book chapter (2018) "Planetary Urbanisation and Postcolonial Geographies: What Directions for Critical Urban Theory?" (Routledge).

Product details

• Authors: Simone Vegli=, Simone Vegliò, Vegliò Simone
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781786613899
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-389-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: New Politics of Autonomy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Caribbean islands, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Urban communities