How outlaw "spatial products"-resorts, information technology
campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports-act as cunning
pawns in global politics. In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling
tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"-resorts, information
technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other
hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and
jurisdictions-in difficult political situations around the world.
These spaces-familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and
trade-aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and
innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, in reality these
enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention.
Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires,
and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades
often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms.
Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails"
provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or
violence. Enduring Innocence collects six stories of spatial
products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in
North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have
reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic
forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations
shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports;
microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and a global
industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These
regimes of nonnational sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around
the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their
blending-their global connectivity-but on their segregation and the
cultural collisions that ensue.Enduring Innocence resists the dream
of one globally legible world found in many architectural
discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of
these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners
sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.
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