The best of all possible islands : Seville's universal exposition, the new Spain, and the new Europe / Richard Maddox.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Maddox, Richard Frederick.

Conference Name:

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1992 : Seville, Spain)

Series:

SUNY series in national identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade shows--Spain.

Trade shows.

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1992 : Seville, Spain).

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.

Contents:

Intro

The Best of All Possible Islands

Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I: Guidelines: Contemporary Ethnography and the New World Order in Spain

1. The Best of All Possible Islands and the Miraculous Year

2. Possible Expos: Academic Meanderings from Tradition to Modernity and Beyond

3. A Pocket History of the Liberalization of Modern Spain, with Observations about Its Relevance for an Understanding of Expo '92

4. Relocating the Subject: Macroethnography and Cosmopolitan Liberalism

PART II: Origins and Structures: The State, the Party, and the Expo

5. Royal Patronage of a Noble Tradition: Madrid, Santo Domingo, Washington, and Paris, 1976-1982

6. Seville, the Socialist Party, and the Commissioner General, 1982-1987

7. The Voyages and Visits of the Commissioner General

8. The Island World Takes Form

PART III: Conjunctures and Conflicts: Technobureaucracy and the City

9. The Two-Headed Monster

10. The Monster and Seville

11. Here Comes Everybody

12. War, Stalemate, and Cultural Politics

PART IV: Pavilions and Performances: The Expo as Cultural Olympics

13. Media Agon

14. Varieties of Europeanism

15. Davids and Goliaths of the New World Order

16. The Many Spains

PART V: Dispositions and Practices: The Sense of Freedom and the Politics of Daily Life

17. Expo People and the Change in Spain

18. Officials and Workers

19. Visitors

20. Renouncers and Resisters

PART VI: The Aftermath

21. Closing Days and Parting Shots

22. Wandering in the Wilderness: From Cartuja '93 to Sevilla Technopolis

23. The Theme Park of Memory

24. The Expo and the New Millennium

Notes to the Text

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14.

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Official Documents and Publications Cited

Newspapers Cited

References Cited

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-356) and index.

ISBN:

9780791484890

0791484890

9781423739920

1423739922

OCLC:

62751149