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Spaces of Danger
. Ed(S): Merrill, Heather; Hoffman, Lisa M.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Merrill, Heather; Hoffman, Lisa M. Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 black & white photographs, 2 diagrams. BIC Classification: JHB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployedmisinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin’s idea of “moments of danger.”
The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activistAnders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor ... Read more
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployedmisinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin’s idea of “moments of danger.”
The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activistAnders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820348773
SKU
V9780820348773
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About . Ed(S): Merrill, Heather; Hoffman, Lisa M.
Heather Merrill is a human geographer and associateprofessor of Africana studies at Hamilton College. Lisa M. Hoffman is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of urban studies at the University of Washington Tacoma.
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