Radical Space (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Politics and Practice
Redaktion: Shaw, Debra Benita; Humm, Maggie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state. In the process, space has been revealed as a productively contested concept with methodological implications across and between disciplines. The resulting understandings of space as fluid, changeable and responsive to the situation of bodies, both human and non-human has prepared the ground for radical concepts and uses of space with implications for how we conceive of contemporary lived reality. Rather than conceiving of bodies as constantly rendered docile within the spaces of the post-industrial nation state, Radical Space reveals how activists and artists have deployed these theoretical tools to examine and contest spatial practice.. Bringing together contributions from academics across the humanities and social sciences together with creative artists this dynamically multidisciplinary collection demonstrates this radicalization of space through explorations of environmental camps, new explorations of psychogeography, creative interventions in city space and mapping the extra-terrestrial onto the mundane spaces of everyday existence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216301332
• Artikelnr.: 74845318

Autorenporträt

Debra Benita Shaw is a Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of East London. Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / Introduction: Radical Space
Debra Benita Shaw / Part I: Art
Public Space & The Body / 1. The Peterborough Child and Joanna Rajkowska: Themes
Influences
Art
Joanna Rajkowska and Maggie Humm / 2. Contemporary Curatorial Practice and the Politics of Public Space
Connell Vaughan / 3. The Alternative Urbanism of Psychogeography in the Mediated City
Zlatan Krajina /4. Radicalizing Institutional Space: Revealing the Site through Phenomenological Movement Inquiry
Victoria Hunter / Part II: Heterotopias / 5. Return to Battleship Island
Carl Lavery with Lee Hassall
Deborah Dixon
Carina Fearnley
Mark Pendleton
and Brian Burke-Gaffney / 6. Contested Spaces/Radical Places: Squatting
Place and Subjectivity
Matt Fish/ 7. Radical
Ethical Spaces
Angie Voela / Part III: Extra-Territorialities / 8. Composting Space
Dimitris Papadopoulos / 9. Mapping the Contours of Vectoral Space: Inaugural statement of the Committee for Aeronautical Psychogeography
Rob Coley(The Society for Ontofabulatory Research) / 10. Gravity
Gender and Spatial Theory
Kat Deerfield / Afterword: Contingency
Acceleration & Repurposing
Debra Benita Shaw / Bibliography / Notes on Contributors / Index