Spaces of danger : culture and power in the everyday / edited by Heather Merrill, Lisa M. Hoffman ; with a foreword by Paul Rabinow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merrill, Heather, editor.

Hoffman, Lisa M. (Lisa Mae), editor.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 26.

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Mass media and culture.

Terrorism and mass media.

Physical Description:

xiii, 326 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Summary:

"On July 22, 2011 a 32 year old far right activist clothed as a police officer opened fire on a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya Island in Norway, slaughtering 69 people and maiming many more. The vast majority of the victims were between 14 and 19 years of age. He also placed bombs in a government building in Oslo, killing 8 and wounding others. In a 1,500 page manifesto in English posted on the internet hours before the massacres in which he referred to himself as a "Marxist hunter," he declared "preemptive war," targeting "Cultural Marxists" who propagate a "multiculturalist," ideology to which he attributed the decay of Western European and American "civilization and culture" and the promotion of a pro-Islamic "Eurabia." What is compelling about this story is less what the content of the killer's easily downloadable manuscript reveals about far right thinking, than how the significance of the event was concealed and silenced as it was interpreted for the public by journalists and political figures. By characterizing Breivik as an evil 'aberration' and abstracting his acts from the social and political context in which they took place, persuasive political arbiters and media reproduced what Allan Pred referred to as "situated ignorance," keeping people from attaining a more accurate knowledge and understanding of the events"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Making Sense of Our Contemporary Moment of Danger / Heather Merrill Merrill, Heather, Lisa M. Hoffman Hoffman, Lisa M. 1

Part 1 Critical Spatiality

Angelus Novus (from back) / Trevor Paglen Paglen, Trevor 19

2 It's Time: The Cultural Politics of Memory in the Current Moment of Danger / Katharyne Mitchell Mitchell, Katharyne 21

3 Skinning the Skinning / Gunnar Olsson Olsson, Gunnar 38

Part 2 Situated Practices

From Allan's notes on Benjamin / Trevor Paglen Paglen, Trevor 51

4 Exposing the Nation: Entanglements of Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Post-Apartheid Nationalisms / Gillian Hart Hart, Gillian 53

5 In Other Wor(l)ds: Situated Intersectionality in Italy / Heather Merrill Merrill, Heather 77

6 Monumental Memory, Moral Superiority, and Contemporary Disconnects; Racisms and Noncitizens in Europe, Then and Now / Damani J. Partridge Partridge, Damani J. 101

Part 3 The Urban and the Spectacular

From Allan's notes on Benjamin / Trevor Paglen Paglen, Trevor 133

7 The City and Economic Geography: Then and Now / Richard Walker Walker, Richard 135

8 Situated Spectacle: Cross-Sectional Soil Hermeneutics of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo / Shiloh Krupar Krupar, Shiloh 152

Part 4 Historical Geographies of the Present

Angelas Novus / Trevor Paglen Paglen, Trevor 189

9 Insurgent Spaces: Power, Place, and Spectacle in Nigeria / Michael J. Watts Watts, Michael J. 191

10 Even in Plurinational Bolivia: Indigeneity, Development, and Racism since Morales / Nancy Postero Postero, Nancy 228

11 Moving Targets and Violent Geographies / Derek Gregory Gregory, Derek 256

Part 5 Biographical Montage of the Present

12 A Bronx Chronicle / Cindi Katz Katz, Cindi 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820348766

0820348767

9780820348773

0820348775

OCLC:

907494909