Selling EthniCity

Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
Herausgeber: Kaltmeier, Olaf

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city and demonstrates how the use of ethnicized cultural production - such as urban branding based on local identities - by the economic elite raises issues of considerable concern in terms of local identities, as it deploys a practical logic of capital exchange that can overcome forms of cultural resistance and strengthen the hegemonic colonization of everyday life. At the same time, it shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible. Of wide ranging interest across academic disciplines, this book will be a useful contribution to Inter-American studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781409410379
• ISBN-10: 1409410374
• Artikelnr.: 36554380

Autorenporträt

Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor for Transnational History of the Americas at Bielefeld University, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas from the
Conquest to Contemporary Consumer Societies; I: The Spectacular City and
the Performance of Ethnicity; Introduction to Part 1 The Spectacular city
and the Performance of Ethnicity; 1: Carnival Redux: Hurricane Katrina,
Mardi Gras and Contemporary United States Experience of an Enduring
Festival Form; 2: "What Did I Do to Be so Global and Blue?"-Blues as
Commodity: Tourism, Politics of Authenticity, and Blues Clubs in Chicago
Today; 3: Insurrection and Symbolic Work: Graffiti in Oaxaca (Mexico)
2006/2007 as Subversion and Artistic Politics; 4: Black Day in the White
Racism and Violence in City: Sucre; II: The Use of Ethnicity in the
Imagineering of Urban Landscapes; Introduction to Part II The Use of
Ethnicity in the Imagineering of Urban Landscapes; 5: Urban Landscapes of
Mall-ticulturality: (Retro-)Coloniality, Consumption, and Identity
Politics: The Case of the San Luis Shopping Center in Quito; 6: Religion
and Culture Set in Stone: A Case Study of the Jewish Community Center of
Metro Detroit; 7: "Ambiguously Ethnic" in Sherman Alexie's Seattle:
Re-Imagining Indigenous Identities in the Twenty-First Century; 8: Against
the "Erasure of Memory" in Los Angeles City Planning: Strategies of
Re-Ethnicizing LA in Digital Fiction; III: Ethnic Heritage and/or Cultural
Commodification in the City; Introduction to Part III Ethnic heritage
and/or cultural Commodification in the City; 9: Quito's Historic Center:
Heritage of Humanity or of the Market?; 10: "Economically, We Sit on a
Cultural Gold Mine": Commodified Multiculturalism and Identity Politics in
New Orleans; 11: Mobilizing Ethnicity: Yucatecan Maya Professionals in
Mérida and their Participation in the Cultural and Political Fields; 12: A
City of Newcomers: Narratives of Ethnic Diversity in Vancouver; IV:
Gentrification and the Politics of Authenticity; Introduction to Part IV
Gentrification and the Politics of Authenticity; 13: (Re-)Constructing the
Ethnic Neighborhood: Gentrification in the United States and the Longing
for a Unique Identity 1; 14: No-Go Areas and Chic Places: Socio-Spatial
Segregation and Stigma in Guadalajara; 15: Spaces of Alterity and Temporal
Permanence: The Case of San Francisco's and New York's Chinatowns