Michael Shapiro

The Time of the City (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, philosophy and genre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory and urban studies, the book provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136977862
• Artikelnr.: 42512674

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Among his publications are Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (2004), Deforming American Political Though: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre (2006) and Cinematic Geopolitics (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Geophilosophy, Aesthetics, and the City 2. The Now Time(s)
of the GlobalCity: Displacing Hegel's Geopolitical Narrative 3. Managing
Urban Security: City Walls and Policing Metis 4. Neo-Noir and Urban
Domesticity: The Wachowski Brothers' Bound 5. Gothic Philadelphia: Divided
Subjects and Fractionated Assemblages 6. Bodies and the City: Washington DC
7. Walt Whitman and the Ethnopoetics of New York 8. Inter-City Cinema: Hong
Kong at the Berlinale