Full Description
How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to Singapore, Hong Kong to Hanoi, Las Vegas to Macau, conventional public spaces are in decline as sites of ideological dissent. Instead, we are witnessing the colonisation of urban space by market globalism (today's dominant global ideology) and securitised surveillance regimes. Against this backdrop, how should we interpret the proliferation of metaphors that claim to communicate the essence of global transformation? In what ways do space and language work together to normalise the truth claims of powerful ideological players? What kinds of social forces mobilise to contest the cooptation of language and space and to pose alternative local and global futures?
This volume poses these questions against the collapse of old geographical scales and cartographic techniques for identifying the contours of civil society. The city acts as an entry point to a new spatial analytics of contemporary ideological forces.
This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Contents
1. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes: Introduction Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin 2. After Neoliberalization? Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore 3. Provoking 'Globalist Sydney': Neoliberal Summits and Spatial Reappropriation James Goodman 4. Toronto's Distillery District: Consumption and Nostalgia in a Post-Industrial Landscape Margaret Kohn 5. Delhi: Global Mobilities, Identity and the Postmodern Consumption of Place Chris Hudson 6. Materializing the Metaphors of Global Cities: Singapore and Silicon Valley Terrell Carver 7. Gaming Space: Casinopolitan Globalism from Las Vegas to Macau Timothy W. Luke 8. Border Policing and Sovereign Terrain: The Spatial Framing of Unwanted Migration in Australia and Melbourne Anne McNevin 9. Hong Kong and Berlin: Alternative Scopic Regimes Michael J. Shapiro 10. An Emergent Landscape of Inequality in Southeast Asia: Cementing Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Viet Nam James H. Spencer
