Body And City

Author : Steve Pile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135082618
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body and the City written by Steve Pile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last century, psychoanalysis has transformed the ways in which we think about our relationships with others. Psychoanalytic concepts and methods, such as the unconscious and dream analysis, have greatly impacted on social, cultural and political theory. Reinterpreting the ways in which Geography has explored people's mental maps and their deepest feelings about places, The Body and the City outlines a new cartography of the subject. The author maps key coordinates of meaning, identity and power across the sites of body and city. Exploring a wide range of critical thinking, particularly the work of Lefebvre, Freud and Lacan, he analyses the dialectic between the individual and the external world to present a pathbreaking psychoanalysis of space.

Author : Sally Sheard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351955047
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body and City written by Sally Sheard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative survey of new research in the history of urban public health, Body and City links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It challenges older methodologies, offering new insights into the significance of cultural history, which has largely been overlooked by previous histories of public health. This book explores important issues and experiences in the public health arena in diverse European settings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.

Author : Lukas Engelmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429832494
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plague and the City written by Lukas Engelmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease. Bringing together leading scholars of plague working across different historical periods, this book provides an inter-disciplinary study of plague in the city across time and space. The chapters cover a wide range of periods, geographical locations and disciplinary approaches but all seek to answer significant questions, including whether common motives can be identified, and how far knowledge about plague was based on an understanding of the urban space. It also examines how maps and photographs contribute to understanding plague in the city through exploring the ways in which the relationship between plague and the urban environment has been visualised, from the poisoned darts of plague winging their way towards their victims in the votive pictures from the Renaissance, to the mapping of the spread of disease in late nineteenth-century Bombay and photographing Honolulu’s great plague fire in 1900. Containing a series of studies that illuminate plague’s urban connection as a key social and political concern throughout history, Plague and the City is ideal for students of early modern history, and of the early modern city and plague more specifically.

Author : Richard Sennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141007595
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh and Stone written by Richard Sennett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Classical Greece and Rome to medieval and Renaissance Europe, from Hogarth's London to the metropolis of today, cities have been at the centre of human existence for thousands of years. By examining individual cities at their most pivotal moments in history, and the way people lived in them, Richard Sennett traces changing attitudes to concepts such as space, burial, sanctuary and planning. He provides fascinating insights into the interaction between the human body and the spaces of the city it inhabits, evoking the sounds, smells and bustle throughout the centuries. And he asks whether modern cities starve people's sensual experience.

Author : Ageeth Sluis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803293909
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deco Body, Deco City written by Ageeth Sluis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival, the revolution, in the absence of men, also prompted women to take up traditionally male roles, created new jobs in the public sphere open to women, and carved out new social spaces in which women could exercise agency. In Deco Body, Deco City, Ageeth Sluis explores the effects of changing gender norms on the formation of urban space in Mexico City by linking aesthetic and architectural discourses to political and social developments. Through an analysis of the relationship between female migration to the city and gender performances on and off the stage, the book shows how a new transnational ideal female physique informed the physical shape of the city. By bridging the gap between indigenismo (pride in Mexico's indigenous heritage) and mestizaje (privileging the ideal of race mixing), this new female deco body paved the way for mestizo modernity. This cultural history enriches our understanding of Mexico's postrevolutionary decades and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history to demonstrate how changing gender norms formed the basis of a new urban modernity.

Author : Ariane Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527531244
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Worlds from the Body to the City written by Ariane Wilson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reveals the extent to which aural perception influences our spatial awareness. Spanning various fields and practices, from psychology to geography, and from zoology to urban planning, it covers a range of environments in which sounds contribute to forming our sense of space and place. The contributions gathered here lead from the mother’s womb, through the habitats of insects and owls, to the resonating bodies of buildings and the city, to artistic endeavours that aim to consciously reveal the spatiality of sound. In this progression, the book demonstrates the profoundly constitutive role of hearing and listening at all stages of our biological and social development, as well as the epistemological, phenomenological and emotional importance of sound in relation to our construction of space. As such, it will appeal not only to architects, town-planners and artists, but also to the growing community of scientists and scholars intrigued by sonic issues. Differing from both quantitative acoustics and sound design, its approach opens new perspectives on the sonic dimension and aural understanding of our environment by tracing analogies between a diversity of spaces formed when sound interacts with listening as a mode of attention.

Author : Charles LaSalle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561440
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get a Bangin' Body written by Charles LaSalle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles LaSalle and his City Gym Boys first gained notoriety with their ripped bodies and popular beefcake calendars. But since LaSalle founded the group in 1997, they have made it their mission to mentor urban youth on the lifelong benefits of fitness and exercise. With practical advice on everything from diet to turning household objects into workout tools, Get a Bangin' Body explains why pumping iron is passé, and shares a body-weight-only program that anyone-whatever their age, income, or fitness level-can undertake. This unique exercise book encourages communities across the country to take charge of their health by implementing a workout program of push-ups, pull-ups, lunges, squats, and planks that will build a naturally lean, toned, and healthy physique. Get a Bangin' Body will show readers how to inexpensively, conveniently, and effectively build the body of their dreams.

Author : John Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220311
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Infirmity written by John Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts. Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each chapter explores which infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. By exploring the works of artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this study considers the idealized body altered by diseases, including leprosy, plague, goitre, and cancer. In doing so, the relationship between medical treatment and the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures is also revealed. The broad chronological approach demonstrates how and why such representations change, both over time and across different forms of media. Collectively, the chapters explain how the development of knowledge of the workings and structure of the body was reflected in changed ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease. The interdisciplinary approach makes this study the perfect resource for both students and specialists of the history of art, medicine and religion, and social and intellectual history across Renaissance Europe.

Author : Jane Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000184838
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wounded Cities written by Jane Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by wounds inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the look and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a grass roots up approach, it places emphasis on peoples experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time.

Author : Indira Chandrasekhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body City written by Indira Chandrasekhar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary India may be said to be in the throes of a transitionality that defines itself in terms of a challenge to earlier paradigms of nationhood and developmentalism. Rapid political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have taken place over the last two decades impelled by a world order that has seen the collapse of socialism and, attendant upon it, a reversal of the decolonization process and a globalizing neo-imperialism have set in motion new ways of looking at the past and positioning the present. In the sphere of culture and the arts, these new reflections manifest themselves as a series of questions: about how to rediscover domestic/indigenous spaces without dis-engaging from the world system or rejecting internationalism; about the assimilative inclusiveness yet alienating exclusion that accompanies changing contours of identity formation; about the tension between the private and the public in the artist s dual role as practitioner and citizen; about creative strategies/reinventions that simultaneously negotiate older cognitive frames and seek to transform these into fresh certitudes. The questions surface in various modes: some-times reflectively, sometimes oppositionally, sometimes in deflected stances, but always with a sense of responsibility and as sited interrogations, conscious of where they come from. These are the questions that underline the conceptual grid of this book.The book is divided into three main sections exposition body.city , frames , body.city figures that lead into each other but not sequentially, relying instead on the inter-connectivity of their textual and visual thematic concerns. The opening section is a set of four essays that explore the specific themes of the body and the city as these translate into modes of representation, performativity and placement. Jyotindra Jain, in Morphing Identities: Reconfiguring the Divine and the Political , discusses the role played by an eclectic range of popular imagery in constructing cultural, social and national identities. In subTerrain: artists dig the contemporary , Geeta Kapur extends the pun in her title to a reasoned-out proposition for locating the subversion of art practice in the interstices of urban spaces, to be excavated through the force of interpretation. Ravi Vasudevan, in Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema, 1974 2003 , explores the body space articulations of screen personas and city environments in the narrative space of today s cinema. In Actors Prepare , Anuradha Kapur s focus is the actor s body, the body in performance. She discusses performance styles in terms of how actors move between the abstract and the tangible and enter into a contract with their audiences by using different modes and by locating the body in different registers. The images reproduced in the book constitute a parallel visual narrative that reinforces the central themes. Interspersed with the text in the first two sections and coming together in the third section, these have a representational value of their own in the scheme of the book. The second section, frames , sets up a vantage point from which to view contemporary cultural practice and provides points of theoretical departure. These include: the notion of civil society in the third world (Sudipta Kaviraj); unfolding forms of collaboration and resistance in the new Indian metropolis (Partha Chatterjee); the shift away from secular, inclusive nationalisms to anti-modern, patriarchal particularisms that parade as nationalism (Pradip Kumar Datta, Kumkum Sangari); the re-imaging of the nation s geo-body through popular cartographic endeavours; and a look at identity formation through an exploration of literary texts (Susie Tharu, Amitav Ghosh).Indira Chandrasekhar is Managing Editor of Tulika Books, New Delhi.Peter C. Seel is Deputy Director of the House of World Cultures, Berlin.The editors of the volume make it clear that the project . . . is a deliberate attempt at distancing the act of enquiry itself from any easy, misleading glibness. It firmly and deliberately locates the critiques it produces within select urban centres . . . that happen to reflect the myriad relations between globalization, local traditions and newly designed living spaces in a particular way, consciously choosing the interface where the social and political conflicts that are central concerns in the artists works are at their most virulent .The Arts News Magazine of India