Culture, Space, and Power: Blurred Lines

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Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore how recent trends in globalization, nationalism, city design, and ruralist revival yield particular spatial morphologies. The second part of the volume investigates spaces of privacy and togetherness, including traditional settings for intimacy, such as the home, and enclosure, such as the prison, or the virtual locations created through digital media (cellphones, tablets and computers). At the same time, despite the two-part division into public and private, the volume stresses their connection and interdependency: the extent, that is, to which broader spatial configurations affect private, day-to-day practices and locations.

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An impressive and wide-ranging set of international essays interrogating the idea and experience of space from theoretical, media, and cultural perspectives. An insistent consideration of questions of power and (geo-)politics informs all readings. Highly recommended. -- George McKay, University of East Anglia

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David Walton is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Murcia. Juan A. Surez teaches American studies at the University of Murcia.