Mexico: cultural globalization in a disintegrating city

Canclini, Néstor García

doi:10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00050

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“…Eine kultursoziologische Stadtforschung, die Wohnungsmärkte in den Blick nimmt, soll also von wirtschaftswissen-schaftlichen Analysen und Modellen ernst genommen werden, aber nicht als konkurrierende oder ergänzende Erklärung, sondern als Bestandteil ihres Forschungsgegenstandes 5 -insbesondere bezüglich der Frage wie dieses Wissen das Handeln von bestimmten Marktakteur*innen konstituiert. Dabei wird unter anderem deutlich, dass ökonomische Erkenntnisse auch in kalkulative Instrumente eingeschrieben werden, die von »economists in the wild« benutzt und entwickelt werden (Callon/Millo/Muniesa 2007;Mitchell 2005).…”

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Kultursoziologische Stadtforschung

Farías,

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Schmidt-Lux

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Dieser Band formuliert die Grundlagen einer kultursoziologisch konzipierten Stadtforschung. Dabei steht die Frage im Zentrum, wie eine kulturwissenschaftliche Sicht auf Städte dabei helfen kann, klassische Fragen der Stadtsoziologie neu zu beantworten. Durch den Fokus ihrer Analyse auf zentrale kulturelle Strukturkategorien wie Geschlecht, Klasse und race gelingt es den Autor_innen, die soziologische Debatte zum Thema Stadt um eine feministische und postkoloniale Perspektive zu erweitern. Des Weiteren zeigen ihre Überlegungen, inwiefern ein kultursoziologischer Ansatz dabei helfen kann, Städte im Kontext aktueller gesellschaftlicher und ökologischer Herausforderungen zu analysieren. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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Kultursoziologische Stadtforschung

Farías,

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Schmidt-Lux

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“…Though some scholars have argued that urban spaces today are characterized by increased connectivity across a space of flows, gated communities and armed guards attest to the institutionalization of fear in urban space; thus, as Zygmunt Bauman writes, today "community means sameness, while 'sameness' means the absence of the Other" (2008, page 116). The contrast between the creation of a commons and an affective community through the occupation of public spaces on the one hand, and the divided nature of the rest of the urban landscape on the other underscores the "disassembled jigsaw puzzle" (García Canclini, 1995) or archipelago-like spatiality of contemporary cities (Brissac Peixoto, 2009).…”

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Assembling the Multitude: Material Geographies of Social Movements from Oaxaca to Occupy

Arenas

2014

Environ Plan D

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In light of the abstract theorizations of scholars of transnational social movement networks—as exemplified by Hardt and Negri's Multitude—in this paper I argue for the power of grounded, material engagements with the practices of protest of social movements to transform not just political spaces, but our theoretical landscapes. I compare the practice of setting up and maintaining encampments in the Oaxaca and Occupy movements to argue that the spatial dynamics of occupation in a tent city fuels the distinctive style of participatory politics of the assembly, providing a creative means to transform confrontation into cooperation. A point of departure for this comparison is my assertion that the political difference made by these social movements lies not just in whether or not they achieved their political goals, but in the kind of intervention that the physical fact of occupying a public space entails in normative understandings of politics and public spaces.

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“…Obviously, it is not unproblematic to identify this imagined mobility with a life-world, which could still be related to Africa (Garcia Canclini 1995;Nutall 2004). But it is important to question any exclusive or privileged relation to an "African character" (whatever that might mean).…”

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Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: In Africa and Beyond

Hahn

2010

Africa Spectrum

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Although throughout the history of anthropology the ethnography of urban societies was never an important topic, investigations on cities in Africa contributed to the early theoretical development of urban studies in social sciences. As the ethnography of rural migrants in towns made clear, cultural diversity and creativity are foundational and permanent elements of urban cultures in Africa (and beyond). Currently, two new aspects complement these insights: 1) Different forms of mobility have received a new awareness through the concept of transnationalism. They are much more complex, including not only rural–urban migration, but also urban–urban migration, and migrations with a destination beyond the continent. 2) Urban life-worlds also include the appropriation of globally circulating images and lifestyles, which contribute substantially to the current cultural dynamics of cities in Africa. These two aspects are the reasons for the high complexity of urban contexts in Africa. Therefore, whether it is still appropriate to speak about the “locality” of these life-worlds has become questionable. At the same time, these new aspects explain the self-consciousness of members of urban cultures in Africa. They contribute to the expansive character of these societies and to the impression that cities in Africa host the most innovative and creative societies worldwide.

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Mexico: cultural globalization in a disintegrating city

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Assembling the Multitude: Material Geographies of Social Movements from Oaxaca to Occupy

Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: In Africa and Beyond

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