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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard Graduate School of Design
ISBN-139781934510469
eBay Product ID (ePID)216793684
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
Publication NameSpatializing Politics-Essays on Power and Place
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science
AuthorDelia Duong Ba Wendel, Fallon Samuels Aidoo
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height231 mm
Item Weight776 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorDelia Duong Ba Wendel, Fallon Samuels Aidoo
Series TitleHarvard Design Studies