Title: Strange places : the political potentials and perils of everyday spaces /
Authors: Kogl, Alexandra, 1971-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Human geography.; Human territoriality.; Geographical perception.; Spatial behavior.; Globalization Social aspects
Abstract: "Strange Places: The Political Potentials and Perils of Everyday Spaces offers a conceptual framework for thinking politically about place and space in an era in which globalization seems to be destabilizing places and transforming spaces at an unprecedented rate and scale. Responding critically to the tendencies within contemporary political theory to dismiss places as inherently confining spaces, author Alexandra Kogl explores the roles that places play in supporting a democratic politics of efficacy and resistance. Using concrete examples and cases, this interdisciplinary work is accessible to a broad scholarly audience, including political theory, urban affairs, geography, and sociology scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Why place, why now? -- The political problem of place -- Place in capitalist narratives and practices -- Rhizomes and the politics of fixity and flow -- From Arendt's table to Pynchon's used car lot: relation and separation in the place of the polity -- Making meaning, making place: place, values, and critique of everyday spaces -- Changing places -- The potentials of place.