Selling EthniCity

Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
Herausgeber: Kaltmeier, Olaf

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. This title 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.

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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. The work 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. It also shows how, simultaneously, ethnic communities can benefit from ethnic labelling of cultural production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• 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