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Urban Awakenings - Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Urban Awakenings - Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in
the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that
'enchantment' as an affective state is important to ethical and
political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of
enchantment can give people the impulse to care and engage in an
increasingly troubled world, whereas disenchantment can lead to
resignation. Applying and extending this theory to the urban
landscape, the authors walk their home city with eyes open to the
possibility of seeing and experiencing the industrial city in
different ways. This unique methodology, described as 'urban
tramping', positions the authors as freethinking freewalkers of the
city, encumbered only with the duty to look through the delusions
of industrial capitalism towards its troubled, contradictory soul.
These urban investigations were disrupted midway by COVID-19, a
plague that ended up confirming the book's central thesis of a
fractured modernity vulnerable to various internal contradictions.
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