Research Catalog

Title

Spatializing politics : essays on power and place / Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Fallon Samuels Aidoo (eds.).

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Wendel, Delia Duong Ba
• Aidoo, Fallon Samuels

Description

xii, 416 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. In academic and popular discourse, spaces tend to serve as passive containers, symbols, or geographical coordinates for political theories, ideologies, and histories. By contrast, the essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. Each chapter features original research on the spatial production of conflict and consensus, which ranges from exclusion and incarceration to reclamation and reconciliation. By focusing on the architects and spaces of political empowerment, the anthology fills a critical gap in studies of space and politics in anthropology, architectural history, conflict studies, geography, public policy, science/technology studies, and urban planning. These essays also demonstrate the global, historical, and contemporary relevance of thinking spatially for political action. Altogether, this multidisciplinary collection puts forward various spatial epistemologies that conceptualize, concretize, and contest forms of spatial politics.

Series Statement

Harvard design studies

Uniform Title

Harvard design studies

Subject

• Space > Social aspects
• Space > Political aspects
• Landscapes > Social aspects
• Landscapes > Political aspects
• Power (Social sciences)
• Tid och rum
• Rummet (arkitektur)
• Makt > filosofi
• Arkitektur och samhälle
• Landskap
• Kulturlandskap
• Landscapes > Political aspects
• Landscapes > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward a spatial epistemology of politics / Delia Duong Ba Wendel -- "There were streets" : urban renewal and the early troubles in London/Derry, Northern Ireland / Margo Shea -- Slum as infrastructure : how the politics of informality shapes South Africa's world-class cities / Kerry Ryan Chance -- Political ground and spatial stakes in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam / Anh-Thu Ngo -- Imagining spaces of peace and conflict in the Rwandan radio drama Musekeweya / Delia Duong Ba Wendel -- The right-of-way : critical infrastructure for the right to work in postwar Philadelphia / Fallon Samuels Aidoo -- The volcanic heart of Nicaragua : Tiscapa and the spatiality of political culture, 1936-1990 / Ryne Clos -- The permeable institution : community mental health centers as governmental technology, 1963-1974 / Joy Knoblauch -- Imprisoned bodies : North Korea and its Kwan-li-so / Melany Sun-Min Park -- The right to live in the world : architecture, inclusion, and the Americans with Disabilities Act / Wanda Katja Liebermann -- Epistemologies of public and private urban design expertise / Orly Linovski -- From the street : civic epistemologies of urban climate change / Michael Mendez -- Immigrant spatial politics in metropolitan Miami, 1957-2005 / H. Fernando Burga -- A conversation with Toni L. Griffin / Fallon Samuels Aidoo.

ISBN

• 9781934510469
• 1934510467

LCCN

• 2015041536
• 40025829931

OCLC

• 926312981
• SCSB-11742812

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library