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This book provides geographical perspectives on the complex and
multifaceted relationship between people and their lived
environments. Scholars with varied regional, theoretical, and
topical specialties offer chapters that explore different aspects
of a phenomenon so pervasive that no conception of social or
political action can afford to ignore it. In the process of spatial
organization and differentiation, people develop emotional
attachments to specific places, as well as people, objects, and
practices associated with those places. Place attachments thereby
shape everyday routines (e.g., routes to work, shopping, social
interactions), major life choices (e.g., places of residence,
education, and vacations), and identities (e.g., civic, national,
and religious). These attachments occur across multiple scales from
personal dwellings to community, region, and homeland. It is our
hope that this book reveals synergies between geography and other
disciplines engaging with place attachment whilst invigorating
research on the topic. The Power of Place in Place Attachment will
be of great value to researchers and scholars of geography,
identity, mobility, and urban landscape change. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of
Geographical Review.
This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding
of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder,
ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional
borders. By considering those less visible aspects of borders, the
book develops an inclusive understanding of how contemporary
borders are structured and how they influence human identity,
mobility, and belonging. The introduction and conclusion provide
theoretical and contextual framing, while chapters explore topics
of global labor and refugees, unrecognized states, ethnic networks,
cyberspace, transboundary resource conflicts, and indigenous and
religious spaces that rarely register on conventional maps or
commonplace understandings of territory. In the end, the volume
demonstrates that, despite being "invisible" on most maps, these
borders have a very real, material, and tangible presence and
consequences for those people who live within, alongside, and
across them.
First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began
with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The
intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and
developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders
in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the
interstices between the two, including sudden surges in migrant and
refugees flows; renewed emphasis on traditional border security and
wall construction; growing tensions concerning maritime
sovereignty; rapid advances in cybersecurity, surveillance, and
biometrics; expanded detention and deportation infrastructures;
proliferation of transborder organizations; revived populist and
nationalist sentiments; and protectionist and integrationist trade
practices, to name some prominent examples from recent headlines.
This revised edition accounts for recent developments including
Brexit, the 2015 migration crisis across Europe, efforts to build a
border wall with US-Mexico, growing isolationist and nativist
sentiments, demands for indigenous homelands, transnational protest
movements, Russian cross-border incursions, and insurgencies and
rebellions across much of North Africa and Southwest Asia.
The development of post-socialist cities has become a major field
of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences
and humanities. Originally constructed under the dictates of
central planners and designed to serve the demands of command
economies, post-socialist urban centers currently develop at the
nexus of varied and often competing economic, cultural, and
political forces. Among these, nationalist aspirations, previously
simmering beneath the official rhetoric of communist fraternity and
veneer of architectural conformity, have emerged as dominant
factors shaping the urban landscape. This book explores this
burgeoning field of research through detailed cases studies
relating to the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning,
and identity in the post-socialist cities of Eurasia. This book was
published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers.
The development of post-socialist cities has become a major
field of study among critical theorists from across the social
sciences and humanities. Originally constructed under the dictates
of central planners and designed to serve the demands of command
economies, post-socialist urban centers currently develop at the
nexus of varied and often competing economic, cultural, and
political forces. Among these, nationalist aspirations, previously
simmering beneath the official rhetoric of communist fraternity and
veneer of architectural conformity, have emerged as dominant
factors shaping the urban landscape. This book explores this
burgeoning field of research through detailed cases studies
relating to the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning,
and identity in the post-socialist cities of Eurasia.
This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities
Papers.
Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists,
Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and
its medieval past. By tracing Rothenburg's historical development
as a place of national importance, this book examines the cultural
politics of historical preservation and tourism in general. In
exploring the shifting practice and importance of tourism in
Rothenburg and how this relates to broader debates about German
culture and identity, Preservation, Tourism and Nationalism offers
an important and original perspective on the changing dynamics of
romanticized historical landscapes and how events are used to
further national, cultural and political agendas. It also analyses
the changing practices of historical preservation, and in
particular, how historic preservation in Rothenburg reflects a
desire to make it more historic and more German. With important
insights into what it means to be German, how Germans relate to the
past and how the answers to these questions have changed over time,
this richly illustrated and detailed volume offers an important
narrative of the rise, evolution and contestation of memory in
German culture.
This interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the
lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of
disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative
perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as
forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and
belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops, urban spaces
and places are active mediums for defining categories of
inclusion-and exclusion. With an international scope and ready
appeal to visual learners, the book offers a compelling survey of
historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals, express
counter-narratives, and negotiate global trends in cities. The
contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to
mirror their respective socio-political agendas, perspectives on
history, and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the
legal, ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural
geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich
diversity of urban space, place, and national identity, the book
compares core elements of identity projects in a range of
political, cultural, and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the
built form and urban settings for social movements, protest, and
even organized violence, this timely book demonstrates that cities
are not simply lived in but also lived through.
This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction
and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi
Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more
than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it
was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly
reorganize Germany's economic, cultural, and political landscapes.
The authors trace the specific roles of its component parts-the
monumental redevelopment and cleansing of cities; the construction
of new civic landscapes for educational, athletic, and leisure
pursuits; the improvement of transportation, industrial, and
military infrastructures; and the creation of networked landscapes
of fear, slave labor, and genocide. Through distinctive examples,
the book draws out the ways in which combinations of place, space,
and architecture were utilized as a cumulative means of
undergirding the regime and its ambitions. The authors consider how
these reshaped spaces were actually experienced and perceived by
ordinary Germans, and in some cases the world at large, as the
regime intentionally built a new Nazi Germany.
From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful
collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders.
What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was
created by people. No political border is more natural or real than
another, yet some international borders make no apparent sense at
all. While focusing on some of these unusual border shapes, this
fascinating book highlights the important truth that all borders,
even those that appear "normal," are social constructions. In an
era where the continued relevance of the nation state is being
questioned and where transnationalism is altering the degree to
which borders effectively demarcate spaces of belonging, the
contributors argue that this point is vital to our understanding of
the world. The unique and compelling histories of some of the
world's oddest borders provide an ideal context for this group of
experts to offer accessible and enlightening discussions of
cultural globalization, economic integration, international
migration, imperialism, postcolonialism, global terrorism,
nationalism, and supranationalism. Each author's regional expertise
enriches a textured account of the historical context in which
these borders came into existence as well as their historical and
ongoing influence on the people and states they bound. To view more
maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection, visit
www.davidrumsey.com. Contributions by: Eric D. Carter, Karen
Culcasi, Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen, Reece Jones, Robert
Lloyd, Nick Megoran, Julian V. Minghi, David Newman, Robert
Ostergren, and William C. Rowe.
From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful
collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders.
What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was
created by people. No political border is more natural or real than
another, yet some international borders make no apparent sense at
all. While focusing on some of these unusual border shapes, this
fascinating book highlights the important truth that all borders,
even those that appear "normal," are social constructions. In an
era where the continued relevance of the nation state is being
questioned and where transnationalism is altering the degree to
which borders effectively demarcate spaces of belonging, the
contributors argue that this point is vital to our understanding of
the world. The unique and compelling histories of some of the
world's oddest borders provide an ideal context for this group of
experts to offer accessible and enlightening discussions of
cultural globalization, economic integration, international
migration, imperialism, postcolonialism, global terrorism,
nationalism, and supranationalism. Each author's regional expertise
enriches a textured account of the historical context in which
these borders came into existence as well as their historical and
ongoing influence on the people and states they bound. To view more
maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection, visit
www.davidrumsey.com. Contributions by: Eric D. Carter, Karen
Culcasi, Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen, Reece Jones, Robert
Lloyd, Nick Megoran, Julian V. Minghi, David Newman, Robert
Ostergren, and William C. Rowe.
This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction
and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi
Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more
than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it
was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly
reorganize Germany’s economic, cultural, and political
landscapes. The authors trace the specific roles of its component
parts—the monumental redevelopment and cleansing of cities; the
construction of new civic landscapes for educational, athletic, and
leisure pursuits; the improvement of transportation, industrial,
and military infrastructures; and the creation of networked
landscapes of fear, slave labor, and genocide. Through distinctive
examples, the book draws out the ways in which combinations of
place, space, and architecture were utilized as a cumulative means
of undergirding the regime and its ambitions. The authors consider
how these reshaped spaces were actually experienced and perceived
by ordinary Germans, and in some cases the world at large, as the
regime intentionally built a new Nazi Germany.
This interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the
lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of
disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative
perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as
forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and
belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops, urban spaces
and places are active mediums for defining categories of
inclusion-and exclusion. With an international scope and ready
appeal to visual learners, the book offers a compelling survey of
historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals, express
counter-narratives, and negotiate global trends in cities. The
contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to
mirror their respective socio-political agendas, perspectives on
history, and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the
legal, ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural
geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich
diversity of urban space, place, and national identity, the book
compares core elements of identity projects in a range of
political, cultural, and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the
built form and urban settings for social movements, protest, and
even organized violence, this timely book demonstrates that cities
are not simply lived in but also lived through.
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