Badlands of Modernity - Heterotopia and Social Ordering

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Hetherington is Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University Klappentext IThe Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity. Through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces of the eighteenth century, this book examines contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity, the character of social order and the significance of marginal space in relation to issues of order, transgression and resistance. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, Kevin Hetherington argues that modernity originates through an interplay between ideas of utopia and heterotopia. Tha Palais Royal during the French Revolution, the masonic lodge and the early factories of the industrial revolution are all analyzed as heterotopia, in which modern social ordering is developed. Rather than seeing modernity as being defined by social order, the book argues that we need to take account of the processes that produce social ordering, their ambiguity and the spaces in which they emerge, if we are to understand the character of modern societies. Zusammenfassung The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity in the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, 1 The Palais Royal as modernity, 2 Margins, orderings and the laboratories of society, 3 Two castles, 4 The utopics of modernity, 5 Secret virtues, Euclidean spaces, 6 The factory for itself, 7 The space of the horizon, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kevin Hetherington, Hetherington Kevin
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.1997
• EAN: 9780415114691
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11469-1
• Pagine: 164
• Serie: International Library of Sociology
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Sociology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Human Geography