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From the Margins to the Centre - Cultural Production and Consumption in the Post-Industrial City (Hardcover)
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From the Margins to the Centre - Cultural Production and Consumption in the Post-Industrial City (Hardcover)
Series: Popular Cultural Studies
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The title of this book, From the Margins to the Centre, refers to
three related themes that have run closely together in the debates
on the city in the 1980s and 1990s. Firstly a process of
restructuring in which activities previously deemed peripheral to
the 'productive' city have now moved centre stage; that is, a
concern with culture, consumption and image. Secondly, the notion
of gentrification, whereby a reversal of the movement out of the
city centre by the affluent classes results in a re-centralisation
of previously marginal areas of the city centre. Thirdly, a process
whereby previously marginal groups and their activities have been
made central to the city - and have made the city centre central to
themselves. Each of the chapters in this volume derives from
recently conducted research grounded in an attempt to examine some
of the issues posed in what can be described as postmodernist
theorising on the nature of the contemporary city. A strong current
of such thought has placed the multiple uses of city spaces at the
centre of its claims for the construction and deconstruction of
identities. The prolification and fragmentation of patterns of
cultural production and consumption, it is claimed, makes the city
a complex field of conflicting activities whose juxtaposition
undermines traditional cultural hierarchies. Across this field
identity becomes fluid in a way that uncouples its connection with
the fixed categories of class, gender and ethnicity. While such
positions point to a dominant role for culture in contemporary
society, there has been little discussion or investigation of the
social practices whereby this is effected. This book attempts an
investigation of such practices. Implicit in the very conception of
the book, and running through each of the contributions, is the
view that contemporary popular culture is crucial to the
understanding of the transformations to which we refer, and that
the investigation of this popular culture needs
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