Science, urban space, and early phonography in Barcelona, 1898–1914

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Recording Industry ◽  
Peripheral Location ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Local Discourses ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City

The chapter focuses on the gabinetes fonográficos active in Barcelona from 1898 onward. It aims to analyze why Barcelona’s early recording industry remained more precarious and less successful than that in Madrid, and advances two reasons: the failure of the Barcelona gabinetes to position themselves within local discourses around science, technology, modernity, and Catalan national identity; and their increasingly peripheral location in the developing urban space of Barcelona. The chapter then discusses how Barcelona eventually came to lead the Spanish recording industry after the advent of the gramophone, with a subsidiary of Gramophone and a new generation of record shops opening in the city.

scholarly journals From Crisis to Compensation: Reinventing Identity and Place in the Sideshow and the Laboratory

Humanities ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Elisavet Ioannidou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Peripheral Location ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Physical Resemblance

Examining the ambivalent place of the sideshow and the laboratory within Victorian culture and its reimaginings, this essay explores the contradiction between the narratively orchestrating role and peripheral location of the sideshow in Leslie Parry’s Church of Marvels (2015) and the laboratory in NBC’s Dracula (2013–2014), reading these neo-Victorian spaces as heterotopias, relational places simultaneously belonging to and excluded from the dominant social order. These spaces’ impacts on individual identity illustrate this uneasy relationship. Both the sideshow and the laboratory constitute sites of resignification, emerging as “crisis heterotopias” or sites of passage: in Parry’s novel, the sideshow allows the Church twins to embrace their unique identities, surpassing the limitations of their physical resemblance; in Dracula, laboratory experiments reverse Dracula’s undead condition. Effecting reinvention, these spaces reconfigure the characters’ senses of belonging, propelling them to places beyond their confines, and thus projecting the latter’s heterotopic qualities onto the city. Potentially harmful, yet opening up urban space to include identities which are considered aberrant, these relocations envision the city as a “heterotopia of compensation”: an alternative, possibly idealized, space that reifies the sideshow’s and the laboratory’s attempts to achieve greater extroversion and visibility for their liminal occupants, thus fostering neo-Victorianism’s outreach efforts to support the disempowered.

Inventing the recording

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-86
Author(s):  
Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Recording Industry ◽  
Recorded Sound ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Main Center

This chapter introduces the gabinetes fonográficos that appeared after the introduction of the Spring Motor Phonograph, Edison Home Phonograph, and Edison Standard Phonograph between 1896 and 1898; these were small recording labels which recorded their own wax cylinders employing local musicians and sold them directly to their customers, operating often precariously or for a limited amount of time. The chapter then discusses the gabinetes that were active between 1896 and 1905 in Madrid, then the main center of the nascent Spanish recording industry. The chapter examines how the Madrid gabinetes built upon ways of listening developed earlier in the decade to transform recorded sound into a commodity, and how, in doing so, they drew upon regeneracionista discourses concerning science, technology, modernity, and national identity.

scholarly journals Produção do espaço urbano pela política habitacional recente (2003-2014): a criação de novos conjuntos habitacionais na Região Metropolitana de Belém

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon Lima Da Silva ◽  
Janete Marília Gentil Coimbra de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Spatial Reference ◽  
Peripheral Location ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Recent Policy

ResumoO trabalho discute a produção do espaço urbano, tendo referência o contexto da política habitacional recente (2003-2014) e a construção de novos conjuntos habitacionais. Parte do ano de 2003, momento em que inicia uma nova fase na política habitacional brasileira, avançando até a criação do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) e do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV). Analisa a produção do espaço urbano, considerando a construção de novos conjuntos habitacionais e suas localizações. Para tanto, utiliza como referência espacial a Região Metropolitana de Belém (RMB). Apesar dos avanços incorporados ao Estatuto das Cidades, em 2001, a política recente tem reforçado uma lógica perversa da localização periférica dos conjuntos habitacionais destinados aos estratos de menor renda, com contribuição direta do PMCMV. Como decorrência, o tecido urbano da RMB tem se estendido precariamente sobre as áreas rurais, num cenário que parece se repetir ao longo das políticas habitacionais, revelando contradições e conflitos na produção do espaço urbano.Palavras-Chave: Espaço Urbano, Política Habitacional, Região Metropolitana de Belém. AbstractThe work discusses the production of urban space, having reference to the recent housing policy (2003-2014) and the construction of new housing estates. From the year of 2003, at which point starts a new phase in the Brazilian housing policy, advancing up the creation of the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) and the Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV). It analyzes the production of urban space, considering the construction of new housing estates and their locations. Therefore, uses as a spatial reference the Região Metropolitana de Belém (RMB). Despite advances incorporated in the Statute of the City, in 2001, the recent policy has reinforced a perverse logic of the peripheral location of the housing estates for the lower income strata, with direct contribution of PMCMV. As a result, the urban fabric of the RMB has extended precariously on the rural areas, a scenario that seems to repeat itself over housing policy, revealing contradictions and conflicts in the production of urban space.Keywords: Urban Space, Housing Policy, the Metropolitan Region of Belém. ResumenEl trabajo analiza la producción del espacio urbano, con referencia a la reciente política habitacional (2003-2014) y la construcción de nuevas viviendas. Parte del año de 2003, punto en que se inicia una nueva etapa en la política habitacional brasileña, avanzando hasta la creación del Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) y el Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV). Analiza la producción del espacio urbano, considerando la construcción de nuevas urbanizaciones y sus ubicaciones. Para eso, toma como referencia espacial la Región Metropolitana de Belém (RMB). Pese a los avances incorporados en el Estatuto de la Ciudad, en 2001, la política reciente ha reforzado una lógica perversa de la localización periférica de las viviendas destinadas a los estratos de menor renta, con la contribución directa de PMCMV. Como resultado, el tejido urbano del RMB se ha ampliado precariamente en las zonas rurales, un escenario que parece repetirse sobre la política de vivienda, revelando las contradicciones y conflictos en la producción del espacio urbano.Palabras clave: Espacio Urbano, Política Habitacional, Región Metropolitana de Belém. 

Transnational Habitus and Sociability in the City: Zimbabwean Migrants’ Experiences in Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khangelani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
The City

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

Ukraina Wschodnia jako przestrzeń symboliczna w prozie Serhija Żadana – na podstawie powieści Woroszyłowgrad i Mezopotamia

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Marta Zambrzycka ◽  
Paulina Olechowska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
City Space ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

The subject of the article is an analysis of the three aspects of depicting urban space of Eastern Ukraine, focusing specifi cally on the Donbass region and the city of Kharkov as depicted in the novels Voroshilovgrad (2010) and Mesopotamia (2014) by Serhiy Zhadan. The urban space of Eastern Ukraine overlaps with the most important values that shape a person’s personality and aff ect her or his self-identifi cation. The city space is also a “place of memory” and experiences of generations that infl uence current events. In addition to the historical and axiological dimension, the imaginative aspect of space is also important. This approach is used by the author to describe the urban space as a functioning imagination or stereotypes associated with it as opposed to its realistic depiction.

Categorias analíticas do espaço e Turismo: o exemplo da Fortaleza de Santa Cruz, Niterói/RJ

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ângelo Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Guanabara Bay ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Spatial Dynamic ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
The City

O objetivo que permeia a presente pesquisa é utilizar a Fortaleza de Santa Cruz, localizada no bairro de Jurujuba, em Niterói, construída em 1555, na entrada da barra da Baía de Guanabara, como foco de antílise, ressaltando a importância deste fixo social enquanto atração turística e de lazer, incluindo a cidade de Niterói no circuito destas atividades, complementares à cidade do Rio de Janeiro; além de abordar conceitos e categorias analíticas, oriundos das ciências sociais, principalmente provenientes da Geografia, pertinentes ao estudo das atividades em tela. Neste contexto, na dinâmica espacial da cidade de Niterói, o processo de mudança de função dos fixos sociais têm sido extraordinário. Residencias unifamiliares, prédios e até mesmo fortificações militares, verdadeiras monumentalidades, foram refuncionalizadas, passando por um processo de turistificação. Assim, a refuncionalização da respectiva Fortaleza em espaço cultural toma-se um importante atrativo da história, do patrimônio, da cultura, marcando no espaço urbano sua expressões e monumentalidade, criada pelo homem como símbolo de seus ideais, objetivos e atos, constituindo-se em um legado as gerações futuras, formando um elo entre passado, presente e futuro. Abstract This paper focuses on Santa Cruz Fortress, built in 1555 in Jurujuba (Niterói), to guard the entrance of Guanabara bay, and stresses its role as a towist attraction and leisure' area, as a social fix which links the city of Niterói to the complementary circuit of these activities in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The study uses important concepts and analytic categories fiom social sciences, particularly fiom Geography.In the spatial dynamic of the city of Niterói, change in functions of social fuces has been extraordinary. Single-family dwellings, buildings and even military installations have been re-functionalized, undergoing a process of touristification. In that way, the refunctionalization of the Fortress as a cultural space provides an important attraction in the domains of history, patrimony, and culture, providing the urban space with an expression of monumentality, created by man as a symbol of his ideals, aims and actions, a legacy to future generations forming a link between past, present and future.

Global Justice at the Municipal Scale

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fonna Forman ◽  
Teddy Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Global City ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Cities or municipalities are often the most immediate institutional facilitators of global justice. Thus, it is important for cosmopolitans and other theorists interested in global justice to consider the importance of the correspondence between global theories and local actions. In this chapter, the authors explore the role that municipalities can play in interpreting and executing principles of global justice. They offer a way of thinking about the cosmopolitan or global city not as a gentrified and commodified urban space, but as a site of local governance consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitan moral aims. They work to show some ways in which the city of Medellín, Colombia, has taken significant steps in that direction. The chapter focuses especially on how it did so and how it might serve as a model in some important ways for the transformation of other cities globally in a direction more consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitanism.

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