Constructing the Forced Migrant and the Politics of Space and Place-making

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1142-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Witteborn
Keyword(s):  
Space And Place ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Politics Of Space

“Something Apart, Yet an Integral Part”: Duke Ellington's Harlem and the Nexus of Race and Nation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Daniel Matlin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Life

Harlem loomed large in the imagination of Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, one of the twentieth century's most significant composers and an important theorist of the condition of being black and American. This article provides insights into Ellington's social thought by foregrounding his evocations of Harlem and his efforts to interpolate that neighborhood into the physical, cultural, and imaginative spaces of US national life. In doing so, it also situates Ellington's ideas in relation to the competing intellectual currents of the Harlem Renaissance movement that had inspired his project of racial vindication. More broadly, the article argues that understanding of the history of African American ideas of race and nation benefits from analysis of discursive place-making and the spatial practices of artistic and intellectual work. Attending to space and place recuperates the complexity and multiplicity of such ideas, which are often concealed by abstracted discussion of concepts such as “integration.”

scholarly journals Living Cities: Tropical Imaginaries

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
The Tropics

This special issue of eTropic  concerns living cities in the tropics and how they are conceived through the imagination. The collection of papers reminds us that urban environments are both created and creative spaces concerned with peopled and lived experiences and their interaction with material, cultural and natural environments. The issue is interested in processes of tropical space and place-making, with an emphasis on key areas that make up lived cities in the tropics: architecture, design, creative industries and economies, circular economy, neoliberalism, displacement, heritage, urban myths, narratives, cultural and natural landscapes, sustainable practices, and everyday life.

scholarly journals The spatialization of Islamist, populist, and neo-Ottoman discourses in the Turkish capital under AKP rule

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Husik Ghulyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Justice And Development Party ◽  
Politics Of Space

This article discusses the recent politics of space in Turkey during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) through a focus on the capital city of Ankara. In order to analyze the recent politics of space in Turkey, the article elaborates upon the recent politics of toponym changes and the discourse over space and place in the Turkish capital. Particular attention is paid to the spatialization of neo-Ottoman, Islamist, and populist discourses and to the production of various representational and counter-representational spaces. One of the key foci of the article is its elaboration on the new Presidential Complex (Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesi) as a case that, in its representational and conceptual aspects, reflects the spatialization of Islamist and populist discourses and symbolizes the recent transformations of social space and the emergent sociospatial order in Turkey.

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