Culturepoles : City spaces, urban politics and metropolitan theory
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Titre
Culturepoles : City spaces, urban politics and metropolitan theory
Sujet
, culture, culture urbaine, société urbaine
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
The field of cultural studies continues to be defined in terms of its indeterminacy and interdisciplinarity. Yet, the leitmotifs of the field (commodification, reproduction, hegemony, mass culture, popular culture, and the culture industry) are suggestive of a shared genealogy in the historical transition form the manufacturing centre to the suburbanized spatialities of consumer society. In this respect, North American and European cultural theory can be viewed as an open-ended project almost coterminous with the shifting structure of the first-world capitalist city.
At the present moment this critical history is particularly significant as a counter to the dominant media and political discourses trumpeting renewal, restructuring and recommendations for a “new deal for cities” and a “new urban agenda.” It was in this context that the organizing committee for the 2004 conference sent out a call for papers that revisited the city as a site for the production of theory, dominant/resistant practices, and as the location of political struggle.
Papers available :
Hal Niedzviecki - "City Still Dreaming : Cultural Gridlock in the Post-Urban Age"
Shaobo Xie - "Displacement, Differentiation, Difference : A Critical Perspective on Globalization"
Ann Barrow - "The Cutting Garden: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Reception Theories of Audiences or Fans"
Lorne Beug - "Regina: Genius loci and Technological Sublime"
Chris Bodnar - "Cities, Cemeteries and Resistance: Paris and the Modern Rationalization of Death"
Amanda Boetzkes - "Laughter, the Mad Cacophony of the City"
Alexandra Boutros - "The Spirit of Traffic: Navigating Religiosity in the City"
Lily Cho - "Sea Change: Asian Diasporas and Atlantic Routes"
Jason Demers - "Fingering the Fringes of the Global Façade: Towards a Mobilization of Latin American Hybridity"
Kristen Downey - "Mass-Produced Fantasy in Commodity Culture: A Reading of Zizek and the Contemporary Romance Novel"
Shawna Ferris - "The Great Mother of Prostitutes is Dying: The City, Its Prostitute Body, and Queer Subjects Now"
Naomi Fraser - "Expressive Culture, Locality and Big Business: The Case of Presto in Kensington Market"
David Hayes - "The Affectivity of Popular Music on Youth Identity in Non-Urban Communities"
Rob Heynen - Urban Space and the Spectacle of Progress: Kracauer, Benjamin and marginality in Weimar visual culture
Sabine Hikel - "Love and the City"
Anh Hua - "City Topography and Memory: Chinatown Revisited"
Julian Holland - “Taking Zizek Seriously…Or Not Seriously: The Economy of Political Demand and Political Supply”
Latham Hunter - "Queer Eye for the Urban Guy: Dominant Cinematic and Televisual Representations of Homosexuality"
Yumiko Iida - “Beyond the ‘Feminisation’ of Culture and Masculinity: The Crisis of Masculinity and Possibilities of the ‘Feminine’ in Contemporary Japanese Youth Culture”
Fiona Jeffries - "Re-presenting the Border Flexopolis: Women as an Accumulation Strategy in Frontier Capitalism"
Sandra Langley - "Metropolitan Theory, ‘City’ as Concept, and Issues in Latin American Cultural Studies"
Andrew McAllister - "Observing Metamerism: Presentation of Metamerism video projection"
Pablo Mendez - "The Metaphor of ‘Laboratory-City’: Experiments in Development and the Urbanisation of the US-Mexico Border"
Ravindra Mohabeer - "Thinking outside the big box: (Sub)Urban one-stop-shops as epistemology"
Kalli Paakspuu - "Another Look at Old Photographs and Contemporary Indigenous Cinema: Rhetorics of First Nations’ Place and Memory"
Alison Powell - "Space, Place, Reality and Virtuality in Urban Internet Cafés"
Kristy Robertson - "'Global Villages': Protest, Art and Politics in Canada"
Christopher Smith - "'Whose Streets?': Notes on Urban Social Movements, and the Politicization of Urban (Public?) Space"
Randi R. Warne - "Climbing Out of (Inter)Disciplinary Silos: Cultural Studies and Religious Studies"
Heather Zwicker - "Dead Indians, Power Conglomerates and the Upper Middle Class: Commemorating Colonial Conflict in Edmontons’s Rossdale"
