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Marxism and Urban Culture takes a broad view of Marx’s legacy and applies it to cultural practices and products from across the globe. Cities explored include Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, and Vienna.
Table des matières
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Urbanism as World Culture and Here Comes Everybody by Andy Merrifield
Introduction: What Is Urban Culture? by Benjamin Fraser
Part I. MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITY
Chapter 1. The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice
Les Roberts
Chapter 2. Capital, Mobility and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa's Barrio (1998)
Malcolm Alan Compitello
Part II. THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTS
Chapter 3. Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in José Luis Guerín's Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007)
Benjamin Fraser
Chapter 4. Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir's La antena (2007)
Benjamin Fraser
Part III. CULTURES OF URBAN PROTEST
Chapter 5. Psychoprotest: Dérives of the Quebec Maple Spring
Marc James Léger and Cayley Sorochan
Chapter 6. The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students' 'Happy and Wicked' Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969
Heather A. Vrana
Part IV. THE HOUSING QUESTION
Chapter 7. Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert Silverberg
Jeff Hicks
Chapter 8. Red Vienna, Class and the Common
Kimberly DeFazio
Part V. (INTER)NATIONALIZING THE URBAN
Chapter 9. Urban Culture as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Sketch of the Uneven and Combined Transitional Development of Rural and Urban Modern Culture in Europe and Egypt
Jelle Versieren and Brecht De Smet
Chapter 10. The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and L.A.: Toward a Comparative History
Manuel Yang, Takeshi Haraguchi, and Kazuya Sakurada
Index
Notes on Contributors
A propos de l'auteur
Les Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Résumé
Marxism and Urban Culture takes a broad view of Marx’s legacy and applies it to cultural practices and products from across the globe. Cities explored include Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, and Vienna.
