Producing the Frontier

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-34
Author(s):  
Teo Ballvé
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Frontier Zone ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter shows how the main force behind the making of this frontier was the city of Medellín's neocolonial designs on the region. During the first half of the twentieth century, Medellín's urban elites, mostly white and famously conservative, set out to subjugate Urabá and its overwhelmingly Afro-Colombian population. The historical–geographical contours of Urabá's production as a frontier zone was driven by a profoundly racist set of cultural politics emanating from the city. Following a classic metropole–satellite relation, the frontier emerged via Medellín's attempt to bring the gulf region into the city's cultural, political, and economic orbit, and the construction of the Highway to the Sea was a central part of this process. The relationship turned into a form of uneven development: the accumulation of wealth by a small elite in Medellín was systematically linked to the accumulation of exploitation and poverty in Urabá. For locals, the violent relations between land, labor, and capital at the heart of this internal colonialism came to define the frontier as a lived experience.

Carceral Matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashad Shabazz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
South Side ◽  
Black Migration ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This book explores the intersection of race, gender, sex, and geography in Chicago. It examines the relationship between people and place, as well as the geographic lessons Black Chicagoans learned during the twentieth century and the role housing and architecture, politicians and police played in those lessons. Through an analysis of interracial sex districts, cramped apartments, project housing, street gangs, urban planning, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Chicago, the book reveals the workings of spatialized blackness in Chicago. It argues that policing, surveillance, and architectures of confinement were used to “spatialize blackness” in the city, with racialized and gendered consequences for Black people, especially on the South Side. The book also considers how parts of Chicago's South Side were confronted with daily forms of prison or carceral power that effectively prisonized the landscape. The effects of carceral power on Black masculinity are discussed, from its entrance into Black Chicago from the first leg of the Great Black Migration to the end of the twentieth century. This introduction provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

scholarly journals ‘I trac’d him too and fro’: Walking the Neighbourhood on the Early Modern Stage

Early Theatre ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tomlin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

<p>This article considers the ways in which plays stage the negotiation of the relationship between public and private space in early modern London through characters walking in the city. It uses concepts developed by Michel de Certeau and Pierre Mayol to think about the twentieth-century city to argue that Heywood’s <em>Edward IV</em> and the anonymous <em>A Warning for Fair Women</em> present walking the streets of London as an act of recognition and knowing that distinguishes those who belong in the city from those who do not.</p>

scholarly journals Corporal iluminação: simbolismo e textualização do vivido em A princesa e o pegureiro, de Abgar Renault

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Centrando-se em <em>A Princesa e o Pegureiro </em>e <em>Sonetos Antigos</em>, os dois livros iniciais de <em>Obra Poética </em>de Abgar Renault, o texto explora a relação entre a experiência vivida e o discurso poético do autor, detendo-se particularmente nas variações estilísticas que, prosseguindo em sua prática escritural subsequente, contribuem para projetar o conjunto da obra como um vasto painel pós-moderno, representativo de toda a poesia brasileira no século XX.</p> <p>Focusing on <em>A Princesa e o Pegureiro </em>and <em>Sonetos Antigos</em>, the first two books of Abgar Renault’s <em>Obra Poética</em>, the paper explores the relationship between poetic discourse and the author’s lived experience, particularly stressing the stylistic variations which, underlying Renault’s subsequent scriptural practice, contribute to project his work as a vast postmodern tableau, representative of the whole of twentieth-century Brazilian poetry.</p>

scholarly journals Inhabited Pasts: Monuments, Authority, and People in Delhi, 1912–1970s

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1035
Author(s):  
Deborah Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Commercial Opportunity ◽  
Splendid Isolation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article considers the relationship between the official, legislated claims of heritage conservation in India and the wide range of episodic and transitory inhabitations that have animated and transformed the monumental remains of the city, or rather cities, of Delhi. Delhi presents a spectrum of monumental structures that appear variously to either exist in splendid isolation from the rush of everyday urban life or to peek out amidst a palimpsest of unplanned, urban fabric. The repeated attempts of the state archaeological authorities to disambiguate heritage from the quotidian life of the city was frustrated by bureaucratic lapses, casual social occupations, and deliberate challenges. The monuments offered structural and spatial canvases for lives within the city, providing shelter, solitude, and the possibility of privacy, as well as devotional and commercial opportunity. The dominant comportment of the city's monuments during the twentieth century was a hybrid monumentality, in which the jealous, legislated custody of the state became anxious, ossified, and ineffectual. An acknowledgement and acceptance of the hybridity of Delhi's monuments offers an opportunity to reorient understandings of urban heritage.

scholarly journals PLANEJAMENTO URBANO EM GOIÂNIA: A câmera participante e um estudo pelas margens

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Henrique Baima Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ResumoEsse artigo procura apresentar o trabalho etnográfico realizado na Ocupação Jardim Botânico em Goiânia, conjunto de casas que surgiu há mais de 60 anos para abrigar famílias atraídas pela construção da cidade, a primeira capital do Brasil planejada no século XX, após o anúncio da realização de uma Operação Urbana Consorciada para a região. Por meio do olhar antropológico e da câmera participante, o material áudio visual produzido revelou memórias da construção da ocupação e a relação que as pessoas têm com os lugares.Palavras-chave: Antropologia do lugar. Políticas públicas. Memória. Planejamento urbano.URBAN PLANNING IN GOIÂNIA: The camera participat and a study by the marginsAbstractThis article tries to present the ethnography carried out in the Botanical Garden Occupation in Goiânia, set of houses that arose more than 60 years ago to house families attracted by the construction of the city, the first capital of the Brazil planned in the twentieth century, after the announcement of the accomplishment of a Consortium Urban Operation for the region. Through the anthropological look and participat camera, the audio visual material produced revealed memories of the construction of the occupation and the relationship that people have with places. Keywords: Anthropology of the place. Public policies. Memory. Urban planning.

Placing Berlin in the Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Phil Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Main Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
Musical Production ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter presents the third element fundamental to an overall picture: the music itself, with specific focus on the relationship between music, text, and the city. The chapter begins with a wider discussion of music’s role in sounding urban geographies. This is then set against the indeterminacy and ambiguities of “placing” klezmer music—a result of mid-twentieth-century rupture, subsequent postwar cultural submergence, and the transnationalism of its contemporary revival. The main body of the chapter is devoted to the specific ways that the city of Berlin is articulated through its klezmer music. In order to do this, the chapter takes as its starting point sociologist Adam Krims’s flexible concept of “urban ethos,” applying this for the first time to the processes of traditional music. Through detailed analysis of a series of musical examples, it shows the important ways in which the city of Berlin is made meaningful in its klezmer music—how exactly, through both music and text, the city functions as a significant musical-semantic unit. The musicians discussed include ?Shmaltz!, Daniel Kahn, and Knoblauch Klezmer Band, and the analysis is supported by detailed transcriptions and interview material. Throughout the chapter and through the work of these different artists, certain themes reappear—themes particularly pertinent to Berlin and Jewish musical production. These include notions of escape, borders, and transgression and the dialogue between visible and hidden histories. The chapter also uses David Kaminsky’s theorization of the “New Old Europe Sound” to question and problematize some of the urban expressions discussed.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy K. DeFalco Lippert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Pictures wielded considerable power in nineteenth-century society, shaping the way that Americans portrayed and related to one another, and presented themselves. This is not only a history through pictures, but a history of pictures: it departs from most historians’ approaches to images as self-explanatory illustrations, and instead examines those images as largely overlooked primary source evidence. Consuming Identities charts the growth of a commodified image industry in one of the most diverse and dynamic cities in the United States, from the gold rush to the turn of the twentieth century. The following chapters focus on the circulation of human representations throughout the city of San Francisco and around the world, as well as the cultural dimensions of the relationship between people, portraits, and the marketplace. In so doing, this work traces a critical moment in the shaping of individual modern identities.

Between the City and the Countryside

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elena Cortese
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The subject of this chapter is the relationship between the Tuscan cities and the families belonging to the middle ranks of the lay aristocracy, from the late tenth until the early twelfth century. Taking the case-study of Florence as a starting point, a comparison with other cities of the Tuscan March in the same period (Lucca, Pisa, Arezzo, Pistoia, and Siena) will be sketched, to see that during the eleventh century we can find a similar situation in different contexts. In fact almost everywhere the ‘mid-level’ aristocracy held extensive and dispersed landholdings, many castles and private churches in the countryside, but important urban and suburban holdings as well. They established political, social, and economic connections with the primary wielders of regional power (the marquis, the counts, the bishops and other important ecclesiastical institutions) and gravitated on the cities, taking part to urban politics and probably living there some periods during the year. The situation in Florence, however, rapidly changed during the protracted crisis of the Tuscan March at the end of the eleventh and in the early twelfth centuries, when the rural aristocracy confronted a major crisis: many lineages rapidly fragmented, the splintered branches concentrated on building compact rural lordships, and they turned their backs on Florence, without playing a role in the emerging comune. But, in the same context of the decline of the March, in other Tuscan cities the separation between rural and urban aristocracies did not take place, or at least seems to have been not so stark and dramatic. Paying attention to the strength of several factors (power of the bishops, economic attraction, connections with powerful counts families etc.), different situations will be compared to reflect about the political behaviour of rural aristocracies and their degree of integration in the urban elites during the so-called ‘consular period’.

Colonial Specters: The Extramuro, History, Memory, and Urbanization in La Paz, Bolivia, 1900-1947

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1131-1152
Author(s):  
Luis M. Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This essay examines the racialization of space and the role of memory in the twentieth-century urbanization of La Paz, Bolivia. Historical memory linked particular races to specific spaces; this in turn helped determine spending on infrastructure, hygiene, and other urban projects. The essay analyzes the ways in which the extramuro (outside the walls of the city) was marked as the place for undesirable, but necessary elements of the city, and as the point of origin for the filth and a whole host of diseases within the city. The relationship between La Paz and the discourses on indígenas in public space in the twentieth century takes center stage: these discourses marked indígenas as undesirable and yet redeemable. This essay analyzes the close connection between the construction of race and the urbanization of that same space. I conclude by reassessing the links between race, space, and memory in Bolivia.

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