Marxism and urban culture / edited by Benjamin Fraser ; foreword by Andy Merrifield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merrifield, Andy, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Fraser, Benjamin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism and culture.

City and town life.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 253 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities--Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna--the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and historical movements, as well as urban-themed literary and filmic art. Conceived as a response to the persistent rift between disciplinary Marxist approaches to culture, this book prioritizes the urban problematic and builds implicitly and explicitly on work by numerous thinkers: not only Karl Marx but also David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Engels and Antonio Gramsci, among others. Rather than reanimate reductive views either of Marx or of urban theory, the chapters in Marxism and Urban Culture speak broadly to the interdisciplinary connections that are increasingly the concern of cultural scholars working across and beyond the boundaries of geography, sociology, history, political science, language and literature fields, film studies, and more. A foreword written by Andy Merrifield (the author of Metromarxism) and an introduction by Benjamin Fraser (the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience) situate the book's chapters firmly in interdisciplinary terrain.

Contents:

I Mobilizing the Filmic City

1 The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice / Les Roberts Roberts, Les 3

2 Capital, Mobility, and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa's Barrio (1998) / Malcolm Alan Compitello Compitello, Malcolm Alan 23

II The Human Senses in Urban Contexts

3 Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in José Luis Guerín's Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007) / Benjamin Fraser Fraser, Benjamin 43

4 Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir's La antena (2007) / Benjamin Fraser Fraser, Benjamin 63

III Cultures of Urban Protest

5 Psychoprotest: Dérives of the Quebec Maple Spring / Marc James Léger Léger, Marc James, Cayley Sorochan Sorochan, Cayley 89

6 The Hitelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students' "Happy and Wicked" Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969 / Heather A. Vrana Vrana, Heather A. 113

IV The Housing Question

7 Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert Silverberg / Jeff Hicks Hicks, Jeff 137

8 Red Vienna, Class, and the Common / Kimberly DeFazio DeFazio, Kimberly 159

V (Inter)nationalizing The Urban

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 Versieren, Jelle, Brecht De Smet Smet, Brecht De 191

10 The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and Los Angeles: Toward a Comparative History / Manuel Yang Yang, Manuel, Takeshi Haraguchi Haraguchi, Takeshi, Kazuya Sakurada Sakurada, Kazuya 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739191576

0739191578

OCLC:

870098211