Simone Vegliò

The Urban Enigma

Time, Autonomy, and Postcolonial Transformations in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book shows how the question of time was crucial for the specific articulation of Latin America's postcolonialism.

Produktdetails

• New Politics of Autonomy
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781786613899
• ISBN-10: 1786613891
• Artikelnr.: 58816341

Autorenporträt

Simone Vegliò has just completed a PhD in the Department of Geography at King's College London. He is co-editing a special issue on 'Modern-Colonial Geographies in Latin America' (2019) in Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) and has pub-lished a book chapter (2018) "Planetary Urbanisation and Postcolonial Geographies: What Directions for Critical Urban Theory?" (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Time, Space, Hierarchies: The Production of Latin America
Chapter 2. The City as an Archive
Chapter 3. Latin America's Urban Geographies: The Apogee of the Twentieth
Century's Urban Enigma
Chapter 4. Buenos Aires, A European Door in The Americas: The 'Argentine
Pavilion' and The Making of The Nation (1880-1946)
Chapter 5. Post-Revolutionary Mexico City: The Palace of Public Education
and The Perfect Race (1920-1960)
Chapter 6. Brasília, a Futuristic Dream: Three Powers Plaza and the
Modernist Democracy (1956-1964)
Conclusion
Bibliography