La ciudad y las masas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook La ciudad y las masas write by Manuel Castells. This book was released on 1986. La ciudad y las masas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Claiming the City and Contesting the State
Claiming the City and Contesting the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claiming the City and Contesting the State write by Inbal Ofer. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Claiming the City and Contesting the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of urban space as one form of political and social repression under the dictatorship, and the threat posed to the official urban planning regimes by the phenomenon of mass squatting (chabolismo). The growing body of recent literature that analyzes the role of neighborhood associations within Spain's transition to democracy, points to the importance and radicalism of associations that formed within squatters' settlements such as Orcasitas in Madrid, Otxarkoaga in Bilbao or Somorrostro and el Camp de la Bota in Barcelona. However, relatively little is known about the formation of community life in these neighborhoods during the 1950s, and about the ways in which the struggle to control and fashion urban space prior to Spain's transition to democracy generated specific notions of democratic citizenship amongst populations lacking in prior coherent ideological commitment.
Legacies and Memories in Movements
Legacies and Memories in Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legacies and Memories in Movements write by Donatella Della Porta. This book was released on 2018. Legacies and Memories in Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Legacies and Memories in Movements addresses the long term effects of democratic transitions on social movements in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Donatella della Porta and her collaborators examine the concepts of historical legacy and memory, suggesting ways to apply them in analyses of the long-term effects of movements, movement participation, and movement strategies and tactics.
Specular City
Specular City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specular City write by Laura Podalsky. This book was released on 2004. Specular City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A sweeping account of one of the cultural centers of Latin America, Specular City tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Juan Peron's fall from power and before his restoration. During those two decades, the city experienced a rapid metamorphosis at the behest of its middle class citizens, who were eager to cast off the working-class imprint left by the Peronists. Laura Podalsky discusses the ways in which the proliferation of skyscrapers, the emergence of car culture, and the diffusion of an emerging revolution in the arts helped transform Buenos Aires, and, in so doing, redefine Argentine collective history. More than a cultural and material history of this city, this book also presents Buenos Aires as a crucible for urban life. Examining its structures through films, literatures, new magazines, advertising and architecture, Specular City reveals the prominent place of Buenos Aires in the massive changes that Latin America underwent for a new, modern definition of itself."--Book cover.
City Fictions
City Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City Fictions write by Amanda Holmes. This book was released on 2007. City Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using concepts from urban and cultural studies, City Fictions examines the representation of the city in the works of five important late-twentieth-century Spanish American authors, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Christina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Monsavais. While each of these authors is influenced at least partially by a specific Spanish American city, be it Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or Santiago, the element that brings them together is the way in which the city is fictionalized in their work: they all equate both language and the body with urban space. In these metaphors, language breaks down and the body disintegrates, creating a disturbing picture of violent decline. The poetry of Paz associates the urban surroundings with dissolving sentences and desensitized, fingertips; for Cortazar, characters walking through cities are seen as both creating and unraveling written texts;
