Geographies Of Memory And Postwar Urban Regeneration In British Literature

Author : Alina Cojocaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527584549

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Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature by Alina Cojocaru Pdf

This book proposes a new approach to the literary representations of London by means of correlating geocriticism, spatial literary studies and memory studies in order to investigate the interplay between reality and fiction in mapping the urban imaginary. It conducts an analysis of depictions of London in British literature published between 1975 and 2005, exploring the literary representations of the real urban restructurings prompted by the rebuilding projects in war and poverty-stricken districts of London, the remapping of the metropolis by immigrants, gentrification and the displacement of communities, as well as the urban dissolution caused by terrorism. The selected works of fiction written by Peter Ackroyd, Penelope Lively, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan provide a record of the city in times of de/reconstruction, emphasizing the structure of London as a palimpsest, which becomes a central image. The book contributes to the development of the subject field by introducing a number of original concepts which connect geocriticism and memory studies.

Author : Eugen Wohl,Elena Păcurar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031371783

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Language of the Revolution by Eugen Wohl,Elena Păcurar Pdf

This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime. The authors included in this volume approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, but, ultimately, focus on language seen as a fundamental tool for simultaneously subjugating and liberating, concealing and revealing truth, discouraging dissidence and fostering revolt. Readers are invited to discover the linguistic implications of the many shapes and forms that the 1989 anti-communist revolutions took. Equally interesting are the investigations of the revolution aftermath, in the first years of transition to democracy. Perceived as a whole throughout the Cold War (1947-1991), the so-called "Eastern Bloc" managed to reveal its heterogeneity, the singularity of each of its comprising states and the multitude of its internal contrasts, most vividly perhaps, in the manifold manifestations of the 1989 anti-communist fight. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers from various fields, including history, (socio)linguistics, political studies, and conflict studies.

Author : Sallie Westwood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0415144299

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Imagining Cities by Sallie Westwood Pdf

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839367

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Compatriots or Competitors? by Hywel Dix Pdf

Rather than being limited to political or legal discussion (like most books on Brexit), this book explores the relationship between cultural production and Brexit (both in the lead up to it; and in its aftermath). It is the first major study to take a comparative approach to analysing the relationship between cultural production and Brexit in all 4 nations of the UK. This comparative approach is necessary to get a detailed picture of the complex dynamics at work across each. This book is highly interdisciplinary in nature, looking at the rise of the cultural industries; the relationship between the UK City of Culture festival and its fore-runner, the European Capital of Culture; national book prizes in Britain and Europe; British variations on Nordic Noir TV; and the Brexit novel. As a result, it draws on research in the disciplines of geography, economics, film and television studies, history and politics as well as publishing and literary studies.

Author : Ch Landry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:884199766

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The Art of Regeneration by Ch Landry Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135983802

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The New Economy of the Inner City by Thomas A. Hutton Pdf

Chapter 1 The reassertion of production in the inner city -- chapter 2 Process: Geographies of production in the central city -- chapter 3 Place: The revival of inner city industrial districts -- chapter 4 Restructuring narratives in the global metropolis: From postindustrial to 'new industrial' in London -- chapter 5 London's inner city in the New Economy -- chapter 6 Inscriptions of restructuring in the developmental state: Telok Ayer, Singapore -- chapter 7 The New Economy and its dislocations in San Francisco's South of Market Area -- chapter 8 New industry formation and the transformation of Vancouver's metropolitan core -- chapter 9 The New Economy of the inner city: An essay in theoretical synthesis.

Author : K. Duff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137429353

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Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space by K. Duff Pdf

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike.

Author : Anna Lisa Tota,Trever Hagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134477494

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Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies by Anna Lisa Tota,Trever Hagen Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: 1)Theories and Perspectives, 2) Cultural artefacts, Symbols and Social practices, 3) Public, Transnational, and Transitional Memories 4) Technologies of Memory, 5) Terror, Violence and Disasters, 6) and Body and Ecosystems. A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with contributions from leading international scholars in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, biology, film studies, media studies, archive studies, literature and history. The Handbook addresses the core concerns and foundations of the field while indicating new directions in Memory Studies.

Author : Neil Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134787463

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The New Urban Frontier by Neil Smith Pdf

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

Author : Sallie Westwood,John Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134761425

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Imagining Cities by Sallie Westwood,John Williams Pdf

The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together some of the most recent and exciting work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. The book is organised around the following major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways.While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future in relation to the idea of the virtual city. Hence, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of space and communication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.

Author : Ronan Paddison,R. Steven Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317997672

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Culture-Led Urban Regeneration by Ronan Paddison,R. Steven Miles Pdf

The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position. Such developments reflect not only the rise to prominence of the cultural sphere in the contemporary (urban) economy, but how the meaning of culture has been redefined to include new uses in order to meet social, economic and political objectives. This significant book focuses on the ability of cultural investment to meet the rhetoric of social inclusion and the extent to which it offers sustainable solutions to the problems of the city. To this end it focuses on the meanings and practice of culture-led policy within the city and its evaluation is proposed. Paddison and Miles have edited an innovative book which presents a series of diverse case studies to challenge the ‘one size fits all’ model of culture-led urban regeneration - a key concern being the extent to which culture-led regeneration can genuinely fulfil the expectations that policy-makers and urban commentators have of it. This book was previously published as a special issue of Urban Studies.

Author : Simon Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9089648534

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Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin by Simon Ward Pdf

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated.

Author : Derek S. Hyra
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226366043

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The New Urban Renewal by Derek S. Hyra Pdf

Two of the most celebrated black neighborhoods in the United States—Harlem in New York City and Bronzeville in Chicago—were once plagued by crime, drugs, and abject poverty. But now both have transformed into increasingly trendy and desirable neighborhoods with old buildings being rehabbed, new luxury condos being built, and banks opening branches in areas that were once redlined. In The New Urban Renewal, Derek S. Hyra offers an illuminating exploration of the complicated web of factors—local, national, and global—driving the remarkable revitalization of these two iconic black communities. How did these formerly notorious ghettos become dotted with expensive restaurants, health spas, and chic boutiques? And, given that urban renewal in the past often meant displacing African Americans, how have both neighborhoods remained black enclaves? Hyra combines his personal experiences as a resident of both communities with deft historical analysis to investigate who has won and who has lost in the new urban renewal. He discovers that today’s redevelopment affects African Americans differentially: the middle class benefits while lower-income residents are priced out. Federal policies affecting this process also come under scrutiny, and Hyra breaks new ground with his penetrating investigation into the ways that economic globalization interacts with local political forces to massively reshape metropolitan areas. As public housing is torn down and money floods back into cities across the United States, countless neighborhoods are being monumentally altered. The New Urban Renewal is a compelling study of the shifting dynamics of class and race at work in the contemporary urban landscape.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Research
ISBN : PSU:000026289861

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Current Research in Britain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Central business districts
ISBN : OCLC:317765785

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf