Marxism and Urban Culture

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Benjamin Fraser Brecht De Smet Les Roberts Malcolm Alan Compitello Marc James Léger Cayley Sorochan Heather A. Vrana Jeff Hicks Kimberley DeFazio Jelle Versieren

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Marxism and Urban Culture

Benjamin Fraser(Author) Brecht De Smet(Author) Les Roberts(Author) Malcolm Alan Compitello(Author) Marc James Léger(Author) Cayley Sorochan(Author) Heather A. Vrana(Author) Jeff Hicks(Author) Kimberley DeFazio(Author) Jelle Versieren(Author)

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Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and historical movements, as well as urban-themed literary and filmic art. Conceived as a response to the persistent rift between disciplinary Marxist approaches to culture, this book prioritizes the urban problematic and builds implicitly and explicitly on work by numerous thinkers: not only Karl Marx but also David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Engels and Antonio Gramsci, among others. Rather than reanimate reductive views either of Marx or of urban theory, the chapters in Marxism and Urban Culture speak broadly to the interdisciplinary connections that are increasingly the concern of cultural scholars working across and beyond the boundaries of geography, sociology, history, political science, language and literature fields, film studies, and more. A foreword written by Andy Merrifield (the author of Metromarxism) and an introduction by Benjamin Fraser (the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience) situate the book’s chapters firmly in interdisciplinary terrain.

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Type	Book
ISBN13	9780739194485
ISBN10	0739194488
Number Of Pages	282
Item Weight	431 g
Product Dimensions	149 x 232 x 21 mm
Publisher / Reseller	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format	paperback

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This is a bold, thoughtful, and transformative book on ‘the urban’ as a point of encounter that enables an interdisciplinary understanding and transcending of alienation in urban culture from a Marxist point of view. It is required reading for anyone seeking to challenge the ‘dematerialising’ condition of urban culture in and beyond the academy. -- Adam David Morton, Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
A wide-ranging and compelling set of essays, which demonstrate the continuing importance of spatial theory in the political interpretation of books and films. This rich and evocative collection unearths both the spectacular and mundane political life of cities as diverse as Vienna, Osaka, and Liverpool, and follows a multitude of characters as they navigate the radical possibilities of their times. As serious as it shows the study of space and power to be, this is also an enjoyable travelogue through the political geographies of the capitalist city. -- Donald McNeill, professor of urban and cultural geography, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

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Benjamin Fraser is associate professor of Spanish film and cultural studies at the College of Charleston.

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Marxism and Urban Culture

Benjamin Fraser Brecht De Smet Les Roberts Malcolm Alan Compitello Marc James Léger Cayley Sorochan Heather A. Vrana Jeff Hicks Kimberley DeFazio Jelle Versieren

4.00 ( 2 Ratings by Goodreads)