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Spaces of Danger - Culture and Power in the Everyday (Hardcover)
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Spaces of Danger - Culture and Power in the Everyday (Hardcover)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
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These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists
offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking
and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept
of "situated ignorance": the production and reproduction of power
and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically
deployedmisinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays
expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated
ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored
spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin's idea of "moments of danger."
The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by
far-right activistAnders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor
Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and
injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war
against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western
civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted
these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that
painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away
from analysis of theresurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms
in which he was immersed. The Breivik case is merely one of the
most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa
Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public
sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting-for
example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in
Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa-this volume peels
back layers of "situated practices and their associated meaning and
power relations." Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual
tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted
and make visible and legible that which is silenced.
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