Book Details
Orange Code:11004
Paperback:279 pages
Publications:
Categories:
Sections:
1. The End of Tradition, or the Tradition of Endings?2. Tradition is (not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization3. The Tradition of the End: Global Capitalism and the Contemporary Spaces of Apocalypse4. Nostalgias of the Modern5. Nature and Tradition at the Border: Landscaping the End of the Nation State6. The Tensed Embrace of Tourism and Traditional Environments: Exclusionary Practices in Cancn, Cuba, and Southern Florida7. Architecture and the Production of Postcard Images: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba8. Tradition as a Means to the End of Tradition: Farmers' Houses in Italy's Fascist-Era New Towns9. Cultural Identity and Architectural Image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town10. The Latency of Tradition: On the Vicissitudes of Walls in Contemporary China
Description:
|
Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing.
In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter the book is divided into three parts. The three chapters in part I explore the inextricable link between 'tradition' and 'modern', revealing the geopolitical implications of this link. Part II looks at tradition as a
process of invention and here the three chapters are all concerned with the making of landscapes and landscape myths, showing how the spectacle of history can be aestheticized and naturalized. Finally, Part III shows how traditionis a regime, programmed and policed and how it has been deployed, resisted, and reworked through hegemonic struggles that seek to create both built environments and citizen-subjects.
|
