| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
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Heritage, Culture and Identity |
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Heritage, culture, and identity.
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| Contents |
pt. I. THE SPECTACULAR CITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ETHNICITY -- Introduction to Part 1. The Spectacular City and the Performance of Ethnicity / Olaf Kaltmeier -- 1. Carnival Redux: Hurricane Katrina, Mardi Gras and Contemporary United States Experience of an Enduring Festival Form / John R. Gold -- 2. "What Did I Do to Be so Global and Blue?"---Blues as Commodity: Tourism, Politics of Authenticity, and Blues Clubs in Chicago Today / Christina Seeliger -- 3. Insurrection and Symbolic Work: Graffiti in Oaxaca (Mexico) 2006/2007 as Subversion and Artistic Politics / Jens Kastner -- 4. Black Day in the White City: Racism and Violence in Sucre / Juliana Strobele-Gregor -- pt. II. THE USE OF ETHNICITY IN THE IMAGINEERING OF URBAN LANDSCAPES -- Introduction to Part II. The Use of Ethnicity in the Imagineering of Urban Landscapes / Olaf Kaltmeier -- 505 00 5. Urban Landscapes of Mall-ticulturality: (Retro- )Coloniality, Consumption, and Identity Politics: The Case of the San Luis Shopping Center in Quito / Olaf Kaltmeier -- 6. Religion and Culture Set in Stone: A Case Study of the Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit / Julie TelRav -- 7. "Ambiguously Ethnic" in Sherman Alexie's Seattle: Re-Imagining Indigenous Identities in the Twenty-First Century / Ruxandra Radulescu -- 8. Against the "Erasure of Memory" in Los Angeles City Planning: Strategies of Re-Ethnicizing LA in Digital Fiction / Martin Butler -- pt. III. ETHNIC HERITAGE AND/OR CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION IN THE CITY -- Introduction to Part III. Ethnic Heritage and/or Cultural Commodification in the City / Olaf Kaltmeier -- 9. Quito's Historic Center: Heritage of Humanity or of the Market? / Manuel Dammert Guardia -- 10. "Economically, We Sit on a Cultural Gold Mine": Commodified Multiculturalism and Identity Politics in New Orleans / Nina Mollers --11. Mobilizing Ethnicity: Yucatecan Maya Professionals in Merida and Their Participation in the Cultural and Political Fields / Ricardo Lopez Santillan -- 12. A City of Newcomers: Narratives of Ethnic Diversity in Vancouver / Alicia Menendez Tarrazo -- pt. IV. GENTRIFICATION AND THE POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY -- Introduction to Part IV. Gentrification and the Politics of Authenticity / Olaf Kaltmeier -- 13. (Re- )Constructing the Ethnic Neighborhood: Gentrification in the United States and the Longing for a Unique Identity / Eric C. Erbacher -- 14. No-Go Areas and Chic Places: Socio-Spatial Segregation and Stigma in Guadalajara / Ulises Zarazua Villasenor -- 15. Spaces of Alterity and Temporal Permanence: The Case of San Francisco's and New York's Chinatowns / Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier |
| Summary |
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city and demonstrates how the use of ethnicized cultural production - such as urban branding based on local identities - by the economic elite raises issues of considerable concern in terms of local identities, as it deploys a practical logic of capital exchange that can overcome forms of cultural resistance and strengthen the hegemonic colonization of everyday life. At the same time, it shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible. Of wide ranging interest across academic disciplines, this book will be a useful contribution to Inter-American studies |
| Notes |
Originally published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- America
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Ethnicity -- Economic aspects -- America
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Politics and culture -- America
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Indigenous peoples in popular culture -- America
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Multiculturalism in mass media.
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America -- Ethnic relations
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Ethnicity -- Economic aspects
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Ethnicity -- Political aspects
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Indigenous peoples in popular culture
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Multiculturalism in mass media
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Politics and culture
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America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317057406 |
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1317057406 |
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9781315608310 |
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1315608316 |
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9781317057390 |
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1317057392 |
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9781317057383 |
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1317057384 |
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9781317057383 |
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1409410374 |
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9781409410379 |
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