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Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory (Liverpool Latin American Studies Lup)
Verena Andermatt Conley
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Description for Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory (Liverpool Latin American Studies Lup)
Paperback. This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Auge, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar) reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; 3JM; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the “spatial turn” in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to ... Read more
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the “spatial turn” in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781380055
SKU
V9781781380055
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About Verena Andermatt Conley
Verena Conley is Visiting Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and the author of Ecopolitics: The Environment in French Poststructuralist Thought (Routledge, 1996); and Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (University of Nebraska Press, 1991).
Reviews for Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory (Liverpool Latin American Studies Lup)
Reviews'This is a working of wide-ranging and deep scholarship which brings together a range of important French thinkers for the first time within a critical, comparative argument. Spatial Ecologies makes a passionate and lucidly argued case for a renewed ecological thinking and a transformative critical practice.' Ian James 'Spatial Ecologies is a tour de force analysis of all the ... Read more