Marxism and Urban Culture

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Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and historical movements, as well as urban-themed literary and filmic art. Conceived as a response to the persistent rift between disciplinary Marxist approaches to culture, this book prioritizes the urban problematic and builds implicitly and explicitly on work by numerous thinkers: not only Karl Marx but also David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Engels and Antonio Gramsci, among others. Rather than reanimate reductive views either of Marx or of urban theory, the chapters in Marxism and Urban Culture speak broadly to the interdisciplinary connections that are increasingly the concern of cultural scholars working across and beyond the boundaries of geography, sociology, history, political science, language and literature fields, film studies, and more. A foreword written by Andy Merrifield (the author of Metromarxism) and an introduction by Benjamin Fraser (the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience) situate the book’s chapters firmly in interdisciplinary terrain. Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction I: MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITY 1 The Archive City 2 Capital, Mobility, and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa’s Barrio (1998) II: THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTS 3 Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg 4 Sensing Capital III: CULTURES OF URBAN PROTEST 5 Psychoprotest 6 The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students’ “Happy and Wicked” Reproduction of Space, 1966–1969 IV: THE HOUSING QUESTION 7 Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert Silverberg 8 Red Vienna, Class, and the Common V: (INTER)NATIONALIZING THE URBAN 9 Urban Culture as Passive Revolution 10 The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and Los Angeles Index Notes on Contributors