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The City of the Senses - 9780230111592

Un libro in lingua di Kimberly Defazio edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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"The City of the Senses is a timely contribution to understanding the `geography of labor' and its relation to the injustices facing working people across the globe. DeFazio opens our senses to make us more acutely aware of how capitalist relations of production eclipse human needs in the overwhelming panorama of consumption and greed we know as neoliberal capitalism. A precise and thorough undertaking that offers a materialist reading of social practices often relegated to the cultural realm--this is critical theory at its best." ---Nathalia E. Jaramillo, Purdue University, author of Immigration and the Challenge of Education

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but by material social conditions. Urban cultural theory, the book contends, needs to understand the human senses in the context of (imperceptible) material relations of production so as to take part in the struggle to transform them

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