Post-socialist transition and serial displacement in the Czech movie Horem Pádem (Up and Down) (2004)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Romeyn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Embedded Process ◽  
Space Of Flows ◽  
The Way

This article analyses the way Horem Pádem (Up and Down, 2004) registers the neo-liberalizing effects of the post-socialist transition on urban space and urban sociality in its representation of Prague. The transition involved an ideological and ethical reorientation that challenged definitions of value and worth. Moreover, through the remaking of the urban environment, neo-liberalization is a contextually embedded process that restructures the conditions of the everyday. Post-transition, Prague was claimed by the logic of post-industrial capital accumulation, with investment in retail and tourist facilities transforming the urban core into a new consumption landscape. I argue that the film’s exploration of the relationship between urban space and identity maps the dislocations produced by the insertion of the periphery of Europe into the neo-liberal space of flows, and the serial displacements that are its effects. Rebordering, de-territorialization and displacement are the key metaphors through which the film captures the emotional horizons of the characters caught up in the multi-scalar reconfiguration of economy, society and space. The narrative presents itself as an allegory of Czech nationhood, whose insertion into a rescaled, capitalist Europe the ‘little people’ populating Hrejbek’s film meet with an admixture of opportunism, disaffection, tribalism and defensive localism.

Space Syntax Approach for Articulating Space and Social Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelbaseer A. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Urban Models ◽  
Spatial Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter sets out to provide a detailed description of the relationship between space and society. It begins by discussing how people co-live in spaces and how such spaces co-live as communities. Understanding the relationship between space and society requires shedding light on how (1) communities emerge and work and (2) people build their social network. The chapter's main premise is that spatial configuration is the container of activities and the way we construct our cities influences our social life. Therefore, the urban environment should be analyzed mathematically using urban models in order to evaluate and predict future urban policies. The chapter reviews a space-people paradigm, Space Syntax. It defines, elaborates, and interprets its main concepts and tools, showing how urban space is modelled and described in terms of various spatial measures including connectivity, integration, depth, choice, and isovist properties.

scholarly journals HAVNEN OG DET HETEROGENE BYRUM - NORDHAVN BETRAGTET GENNEM GEORGES BATAILLES HETEROLOGI

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (109) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Helene Schytter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Terrain Vague ◽  
City Design ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Harbour Area ◽  
The Way

THE HARBOUR AND THE HETEROGENEOUS URBAN. NORDHAVN READ ON THE BASIS OF BATAILLES HETEROLOGYThis article deals with the revitalisation of post-industrial waterfronts on the basis of the French philosopher Georges Bataille’s concept of the heterogeneous. Using the northern harbour area in Copenhagen (Nordhavn) as its analysis site, the article investigates the way in which a heterologically based position can be introduced into urban space-making, pointing to a different urban ideal and the possibility of including something formless and wholly other in the conventional development process. Based on Bataille’s heterology, Nordhavn can predominantly be considered a radically different urban space on a spatial, reflexive and socio-cultural level. The harbour area can be characterised on the basis of four spatial types (ruin, shed, accumulation monument and terrain vague), each expressing aheterogeneous aesthetic identity as something more or less excluded, non-ideal, and entropy- and waste-like. The heterogeneous typology thus establishes the experience of a progressive spatial formlessness, as well as emphasising the aesthetic and cultural potential in urban wastelands. In this sense, the heterogeneous urban environment underlines the importance of the procedural, non-planned, unexpected, other and hybrid in relation to the current discussions about how to create a vibrant urban space. In the age of gentrification, wall-to-wall city design and homogenised waterfronts, a heterogeneously inspired urbandevelopment may thus generate an alternative aesthetic strategy leading towards a more value-pluralistic city.

scholarly journals The apparatus theory: ‘Religion in the city’

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Geel ◽  
Jaco Beyers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The apparatus theory is used to challenge the interpretation of religion and also to determine whether religion is a factor to contend with in modern society. Religion could be the element that keeps the city intact or could be the one element that is busy ruining our understanding of reality and the way this interacts with society in the urban environment. Paradigms determine our relationships. In this case, the apparatus theory would be a more precise way of describing not only our relationship towards the city but also the way in which we try to perceive our relationship with religion and the urban conditions we live in. This article gives theoretical background to the interpretation and understanding of the relationship between various entities within the city. The apparatus of the city creates space for religion to function as a binding form. Religion could bind different cultures, diverse backgrounds and create space for growth.

scholarly journals Du retrait à la reconquête : pratiquer la ville après un épisode psychotique

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Zoé Codeluppi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract. The article aims to provide a better understanding of the urban practices of young people living with a diagnosis of psychosis while recovering. I show the way practices are adjusted according to the temporal dynamics of psychosis. I argue that the continuous variability of symptoms over the recovery period implies alternately practices of withdrawal and reconquest of the urban space. I first outline participants' reconquest of urban spaces, which starts in well-known places and then extends to less familiar ones. In doing so, I point out the diversity of urban spaces inhabited by participants during the recovery process which includes institutional, private, as well as public places. I then outline the various material, relational and sensory resources available in these spaces. I show how participants use them according to the temporal dynamics. I finally highlight the way participants are gradually getting involved in the relationship with a large array of resources as the intensity of symptoms is reducing. My analysis is based on a three months ethnography in a therapeutic institution in Lausanne.

scholarly journals A representação da cozinha como elemento do produto imobiliário na cidade de Vitória entre as décadas de 1950 a 1970/The representation of the kitchen as element of the real estate product in the city of Vitoria between the decades of 1950 to 1970

2017 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Erick Alessandro Schunig F ◽  
Paulo Cesar Scarin
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

As transformações do espaço urbano vêm introduzindo novos padrões que revelam elementos da dinâmica capitalista. Nesse aspecto, o apartamento residencial é apresentado como um produto dotado de novos conceitos em sintonia com as mudanças do capitalismo. Este estudo tem como objetivo desenvolver uma análise sobre as propagandas imobiliárias na cidade de Vitória, entre as décadas de 1950 a 1970, no qual identificamos as estratégias do setor da construção imobiliária em relação a cozinha como item diferencial do imóvel e inserido no sistema de produção da sociedade de consumo.ABSTRACTThis study aims to develop an analysis of the kitchen of the residential apartments in the city of Vitoria, between the 1950s and 1970s, as a space connected to the transformations promoted by capitalism. It was carried out a qualitative survey of advertisements published in a newspaper, as well as the use of authors who approach the relationship between the production of the urban space and the food. From this analysis, it was possible to verify that the transformation in the kitchen is indicative of the way of life established by the Brazilian urbanization during this period.Keywords: Kitchen; Urban space; Advertising.

Looking Back

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Way

The conclusion pulls together the key arguments presented throughout Troubled Everyday considering the way the melding of violence and the everyday in European art cinema has us reflect upon our own everyday outside of the cinema. In a world fraught with the violent and unexpected disruptions of terrorism, is it any wonder that films that call attention to the potential for sudden rupture to our everyday experience and understanding are so affecting? Examining Gaspar Noé’s reverse-running rape-revenge film Irreversible (2002), the conclusion offers some final reflections upon the relationship between violence and the everyday both in the cinema and outside of it.

scholarly journals Blackened audiotopia: Privatized listening and urban experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Francesca Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Black Metal ◽  
Metal Music ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

In the age of headphone culture, where privatized listening while wandering around the city is the norm, the use of headphones raises questions about the experience of the listener and their perception of their urban environment. Of particular interest is the disjunct relationship between black metal music and urban space. Black metal lyrics often portray images of nature and paganism, a concept completely removed from a modern urban landscape. This article draws from Michael Bull’s work on iPod culture as well as ethnographic research to explore the black metal fan’s experience of private listening in a public cityscape. The main focus of this study is the relationship between the ambiguously intertwined visual urban reality and sonic imaginary. The research suggests that the black metal listener can have one of four experiences of time and space resulting in what is referred to as either a split or a blend of the aural imagined experience and the visual reality of the city.

Space, Politics, and the Survival Strategies of the Homeless

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID A. SNOW ◽  
MICHAEL MULCAHY
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Spatial Constraints ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

This article sheds conceptual and empirical light on the ways in which urban physical space and homelessness intersect by considering three focal questions: (a) What are the key spatial concepts necessary for understanding the relationship between urban space and homeless survival strategies and routines, (b) what are the central strategies used within communities to control the homeless spatially or ecologically, and (c) how do the homeless respond to these constraints and impositions? These questions are explored conceptually and empirically with data on spatial contestations drawn from the local newspapers of a southwestern city between 1992 and 1997. The findings illuminate the sociospatial dynamics of homelessness and underscore how a thoroughgoing understanding of the everyday routines and adaptive strategies of the homeless requires consideration of how different types of urban space affect the homeless and of the ways in which the homeless negotiate and respond to the spatial constraints with which they are confronted.

Responsive Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-342
Author(s):  
Peter Drahos
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Research Integrity ◽  
Access To Medicines ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Commons ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Regulatory capitalism depends heavily on science, but science faces epi-stemic critiques and crises of research integrity. These critiques and crises are outlined and then located within capitalism's general tragedy of commodification. Drawing on Marx's insights into the relationship between science, commodity production, and the machine age, the general tragedy of commodification is outlined. From here, the article shifts to discussing some well-known global public good problems relating to access to medicines and access to knowledge. The roots of these problems can be traced back to the way the institution of science has been bent toward processes of capital accumulation. The evidence we have from the history of science suggests that too often its research agendas have been set by capital and the demands of war-making capitalist states. The final part of the article considers whether the ideal of responsiveness might help us to reformulate the way in which we think about the responsibilities and duties of science. It focuses on human rights, citizen science, and the intellectual commons as potential sources of responsiveness. Responsiveness has been a fertile ideal for law and society theorists when it has come to theory building in law and regulation. It also has something to offer the debates around the crises of science.

scholarly journals Iskustvo Beograda Augustina Tina Ujevića

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Sylwia Nowak-Bajcar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The subject of the analysis in this article are the texts of Augustin Tin Ujević created during his stay in Belgrade. The way of experiencing this city by the poet is reflected through the relationship between the subject and the urban space, through the language of the lyrical expression and through poetics. The interpretive key to its reading is the flaneur figure, treated not as a prototype, but as a reference point.

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