Politics of the Dunes - Maxwell Woods

Politics of the Dunes

Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City

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Buch | Hardcover
238 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-901-3 (ISBN)
169,95 inkl. MwSt
Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City's architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.
Founded in the late 1960s on Chile’s Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge architectural experimentation. Yet with a global reputation as an apolitical collective, little has been discussed about the Open City’s relationship with Chilean history and politics. Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

Maxwell Woods is a member of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Viña del Mar, Chile. His work has appeared in Social and Cultural Geography, Cultural Dynamics, Cultural Politics, and Literary Geographies.

Acknowledgments



Introduction



Chapter 1. On So-Called Non-Political Urban Environmentalism: The Architecture of the Open City, Politics, and the Political

Chapter 2. Refashioning Latin Americanism: The Foundations of the Environmental Urbanism of the Open City

Chapter 3. The Eruption of the Political?: Politics, the Political, Hospitality, and the Foundation of the Open City

Chapter 4. Thinking Otherwise: Keeping the Open City Open in the Dictatorship

Chapter 5. On Subaltern Historiography: Thinking the Open City Historically

Chapter 6. Towards a Decolonial Environmentalism: The Limits and Openings of the Open City’s Environmental Urbanisms



Conclusion: Socialities, New Openings, and the Lingering Question of Capital



References

Index



Figures follow p. 190

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Space and Place
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-901-3 / 1789209013
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-901-3 / 9781789209013
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