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Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona

Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona

Hardcover

Series: Hispanic Urban Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031577957
ISBN13: 9783031577956
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 3 2024
Pages: 155
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.21 Depth: 8.33
Language: English

This book explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelona--a time of unprecedented levels of gentrification, branding, mass tourism, and immigration. Drawing from examples observed in public spaces (streets, plazas, sidewalks, and empty lots), as well as in cultural representation (film, photography, literature), this book exposes the quiet agency of those excluded from urban decision-making but who nonetheless find ways to carve out spatial autonomy for themselves. Absent from the map or postcard, the quicksilver spatial phenomena documented in this book can make us rethink our definitions of culture, politics, inclusion, legality, architecture, urban planning, and public space.

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