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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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Fate (Hardcover)
Lisa M. Hoffman
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R862
Discovery Miles 8 620
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin
forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to
wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep
hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the
birth of a special being spoken of by the ancient keepers can
restore balance. But what happens when that one has no recollection
of who she is or where she's from? Cheza has lived her life in
Sacama village since she was five years old. Her life has been
quiet and peaceful until someone precious to her is taken away.
From that moment her life begins to fall apart as one thing after
another shakes the foundation of her life. Now she must reunite
herself with the only blood family she has left and travel the
lands of Sanzu, collecting a precious item from the spirits to
unite the lands against the evil that threatens them. But will she
be able to when it means losing everything she knows and loves?
Tacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a
significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and
their second generation American children, and these families
formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious,
prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city’s Nisei grew
up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed
the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous
generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and
dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives
that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based
on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in
Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these
early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting
and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban
settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman
underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as
their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
Tacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a
significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and
their second generation American children, and these families
formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious,
prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up
attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the
Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation.
At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic
ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that
diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on
more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in
Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these
early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting
and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban
settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman
underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as
their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
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Fate (Paperback)
Lisa M. Hoffman
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R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin
forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to
wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep
hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the
birth of a special being spoken of by the ancient keepers can
restore balance. But what happens when that one has no recollection
of who she is or where she's from? Cheza has lived her life in
Sacama village since she was five years old. Her life has been
quiet and peaceful until someone precious to her is taken away.
From that moment her life begins to fall apart as one thing after
another shakes the foundation of her life. Now she must reunite
herself with the only blood family she has left and travel the
lands of Sanzu, collecting a precious item from the spirits to
unite the lands against the evil that threatens them. But will she
be able to when it means losing everything she knows and loves?
Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the
advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The
global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and
universalize, relying on such terms as "smart cities,"
"eco-cities," and "resilience," and proposing a "science of cities"
based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban
Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in
understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified
framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety
of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine
how urban natures are part of-and are shaped by-cities and
urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from
cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of
thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors
consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies
that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate
practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of
popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities
including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore
abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining
real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and
the Chinese "eco-city" Yixing. Contributors Martin Avila, Amita
Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M.
Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker
Soerlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker
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