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The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings
they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of
everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the
atmospheric power of people, places, and phenomena. While the
predominant focus of current urban planning tends to rest on
economic growth, sustainability, or offering housing, transport,
and activities to an increasing number of city residents, this book
offers a different take, based on recent discussions in the social
sciences about how cities feel. It calls attention to the mundane
ways in which urban dwellers adapt and adopt their surroundings. It
argues that atmospheric cities are characterised by a fundamental
porosity that affects how people relate to places. This highlights
why some places are sought after while others are avoided. Through
concrete examples of people being in and moving through the city,
the book shows how people attune and are attuned by designed urban
spaces, often at the margins of attention, when they find comfort
in the familiar and seek out the unexpected. This book is aimed at
researchers, postgraduates, and practitioners interested in urban
design and how people make sense of the feelings it evokes. It will
be of interest to those in the fields of urban studies, urban
design, planning, architecture urban geography, cultural geography,
cultural studies and anthropology.
Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance in the field of
tension between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine that
offers new insights into memory politics as a globally resurgent
and increasingly transnational phenomenon. It tells a largely
untold story of a Palestinian diaspora: how a predominantly
Christian, conservative, and wealthy elite has come to form the
backbone of a diasporic community to which the Palestinian struggle
remains a central mobilizing force. Schwabe explores how
Palestinian diaspora politics play into larger attempts to obscure
the recent Chilean past and its consequences, all the while working
to counter Zionist efforts to negate and erase Palestinian
existence. Despite considerable efforts to contain them, memories
move. They travel across porous and ever-changing geographical and
socio-political boundaries, reconfiguring realities in the process.
In exploring the paradoxes of remembering and forgetting between
Palestine and Chile as intertwining nodes in the complex field of
global memory politics, the book demarcates the limits and
possibilities of forging solidarity at the fault lines of memory.
Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance in the field of
tension between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine that
offers new insights into memory politics as a globally resurgent
and increasingly transnational phenomenon. It tells a largely
untold story of a Palestinian diaspora: how a predominantly
Christian, conservative, and wealthy elite has come to form the
backbone of a diasporic community to which the Palestinian struggle
remains a central mobilizing force. Schwabe explores how
Palestinian diaspora politics play into larger attempts to obscure
the recent Chilean past and its consequences, all the while working
to counter Zionist efforts to negate and erase Palestinian
existence. Despite considerable efforts to contain them, memories
move. They travel across porous and ever-changing geographical and
socio-political boundaries, reconfiguring realities in the process.
In exploring the paradoxes of remembering and forgetting between
Palestine and Chile as intertwining nodes in the complex field of
global memory politics, the book demarcates the limits and
possibilities of forging solidarity at the fault lines of memory.
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