Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Metro(Polis): Decentering Urbanity in Conceptualizing Metropolitanism
View through CrossRef
Abstract
This article deconstructs the neologism metropolis to reconsider the constitutive role that metro and polis play in making metropolitan signification distinct. Where metropolis’s urbanity, and particularly its international urbanity, has been emphasized in the past, this article focuses on the centralizing function of metropolis in order to theorize the term metropolis as a distinct spatial term that could become a method for conceptualizing and analyzing the relations of space organized in a centralized hierarchy. It synthesizes metropolitanisms from postcolonial studies, urban studies, and literary studies.
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Title: Metro(Polis): Decentering Urbanity in Conceptualizing Metropolitanism
Description:
Abstract
This article deconstructs the neologism metropolis to reconsider the constitutive role that metro and polis play in making metropolitan signification distinct.
Where metropolis’s urbanity, and particularly its international urbanity, has been emphasized in the past, this article focuses on the centralizing function of metropolis in order to theorize the term metropolis as a distinct spatial term that could become a method for conceptualizing and analyzing the relations of space organized in a centralized hierarchy.
It synthesizes metropolitanisms from postcolonial studies, urban studies, and literary studies.
Related Results
PENÉLOPE, TECELÃ DE ENGANOS
PENÉLOPE, TECELÃ DE ENGANOS
O presente artigo intenta expor uma leitura diferenciada daquela tradicional em relação à participação feminina na sociedade políade. Para tanto, a figura de Penélope,personagem es...
An Existentialist Epistemology of the Closet: Sexuality and Art in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro
An Existentialist Epistemology of the Closet: Sexuality and Art in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro
This article explores how Sartean existentialism can be used to explain the sexual orientation of the main character Gabriel in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. Drawing first...
A Turning-Point in Political Thought
A Turning-Point in Political Thought
Berlin discerns three great crises in Western political thought, each challenging one of its three primary tenets. The three tenets are (1) that questions about correct human actio...
Ernest Barker and Greek Political Thought: Plato
Ernest Barker and Greek Political Thought: Plato
For much of the twentieth century Ernest Barker was the most frequently cited authority on Greek political thought in the English-speaking world. The centenary of his first publica...
Kunst, Mobilität und der neue Geist des Kapitalismus
Kunst, Mobilität und der neue Geist des Kapitalismus
'Over the past thirty years, exhibition spaces and art biennials have proliferated around the world. As a consequence, artists have advanced to become hyper-mobile protagonists. Ho...
Guiralt, Carmen: Clarence Brown
Guiralt, Carmen: Clarence Brown
Quien así reflexionaba sobre la sempiterna dualidad cinematográfica entre arte e industria era el director Clarence Brown (1890-1987), uno de los más destacados representantes del ...
Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women
Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women
Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a 24-year-old metro Atlanta-based organization that works to end male violence against women, uses an ecological, community-based accountability model ...
Knocking sovereign customers off their pedestals? When contact staff educate, amateurize, and penalize deviant customers
Knocking sovereign customers off their pedestals? When contact staff educate, amateurize, and penalize deviant customers
Promoted by marketing discourses, customer sovereignty is characterized by the cult of the customer and the belief that contact staff have to serve the customer. However, research ...