Spatializing Politics - Essays on Power and Place (Gsd Research) (Harvard Design Studies) - Softcover

Delia Wendel; Fallon Samuels Aidoo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934510467 ISBN 13: 9781934510469

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2015

Synopsis

"Spatializing Politics" is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. In academic and popular discourse, spaces tend to serve as passive containers, symbols, or geographical coordinates for political theories, ideologies, and histories. By contrast, the essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. Each chapter features original research on the spatial production of conflict and consensus, which ranges from exclusion and incarceration to reclamation and reconciliation. By focusing on the architects and spaces of political empowerment, the anthology fills a critical gap in studies of space and politics in anthropology, architectural history, conflict studies, geography, public policy, science/technology studies, and urban planning. These essays also demonstrate the global, historical, and contemporary relevance of thinking spatially for political action. Altogether, this multidisciplinary collection puts forward various spatial epistemologies that conceptualize, concretize, and contest forms of spatial politics.

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About the Authors

Delia Duong Ba Wendel is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at Harvard University.

Fallon Samuels Aidoo is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934510467
• ISBN 13: 9781934510469
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300