places and non places

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Places/Non-Places: Galicia on the \u3cem\u3eRoad of St. James\u3c/em\u3e

This chapter offers a critical reconsideration of the theory according to which the Road of St. James (Camiño de Santiago) provides a site for ethnic identity-making capable of modernizing Galicia as a rural region. By definition, a route or itinerary—rather than a fixed site of any kind—provides a sequence of places to pass through, overlapping in an intriguing way with Marc Augé’s concept of “non-places.” Putting into a comparative perspective the measures that led to the consolidation of the Road as a trans-regional and transnational itinerary during the presidency of the conservative Partido Popular in Galicia between 1990 and 2005, the essay demonstrates that the configuration of a regional image based on a larger itinerary may respond to broader, questionable, European agendas

Non-home: A Theoretical Approach to Migrants' Dwellings

In this article we introduce the notion of non-home as an attempt of meaningful insight into the migrants' dwelling constructed from elements of different provenance, depending on tenants housing experiences, definitions and the very materiality of a living space. In developing the idea of a non-home we refer to the theoretical concepts of non-places and heterotopias

The Architecture of Non-places and Today’s Odyssey

Los llamados No-lugares se han ido convirtiendo en una de las señas distintivas de nuestra época; el cine reciente ha explorado con gran penetración sus contenidos espaciales y arquitectónicos.ENG: The so-called Non-places are becoming one of the distinctive features of our time; the recent cinema has explored with great insight their spacial and architectural contents.Peer Reviewe

Fashion's Non-Places: Digital Complicity and Visual Codes

In the heterotopia that is the internet, fashion’s social identities and representations are constructed and mediated through images: blogs and YouTube tutorials have developed a following in the millions and are often the first stop when seeking advice, opinions or product reviews. All of these channels have a very specific language, with its own precisely defined vocabulary of signifiers.In this paper, I would like to examine the digital beauty parlor as a place of socio-geography: at the intersection of the natural and the unnatural, of late capitalism and emancipatory movements, the disembodied avatars and live bloggers generate a sort of impersonal complicity with their viewers. Digital self-representation takes on a variety of forms, loosely connected to real places and social codes. How is this connection manufactured? What ideologies lie behind digital beautifying tools? What types of knowledge do those channels generate, how does it relate to the fast-evolving cycle of fashion? What impulses are at the source of returning time and time again to these spaces of cultural phenomena? And what kind of place is the digital beauty parlor, compared to its real-life equivalent?

The Appropriation of Space

In this paper, I study some aspects of urban environment using the concept of non-place intro- duced by Marc Augé in 1995. I first define the concepts of space, place and non-place. I then explain why nomadism plays an important role in the way that we appropriate urban space. I discuss the role of narrative architects and how they intervene in the politics of space. And I conclude by questioning the supposedly superiority of places over non-places

New holiday towns as Non-places: the case of Marina d'Or

Since the start of tourism as rewarding and massive activity in the mid-nineteenth century, new tourist destinations have appeared to satisfy mass tourism. Among the different urban developments that have taken place so far, the objective of this paper is to reflect on a model of tourist development that is spreading internationally, the New holiday towns. These urban settlements can reach large dimensions in size and population, so producing appreciable economic, political and environmental impacts in their environment. But, what about the social impact that these NHTs involve? Tthrough the analysis of a specific case, Marina d’Or, social aspects were investigated with the help of a quantitative method, the Survey: prototype users; frequency by residents in town; relations with its neighbors; intensity of use that they make of public space and their satisfaction and valuation of urban space. And finally with a qualitative methodology, the Participant Observation, the diversity of its urban space and the ways of inhabiting it were analyzed.Peer Reviewe

Orte und Nicht-Orte im Werk Klaus Rifbjergs

Abstract For the first time Klaus Rifbjerg’s diary Berlinerdage (1995) and other of his most important prose and lyric texts from different periods of his authorship are examined in the context of Marc Augé’s theory of places and non-places in this paper. The analysis of Rifbjerg’s texts focuses on the implicit presence of places and non-places. Reading Rifbjerg in context of Augé and Walter Benjamin’s Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert (final version 1938) opens up for a new research position; it proves Rifbjerg’s considerable interest in German culture, and elucidates his opposition to ‘supermodernity’. Places and non-places are palimpsests in Rifbjerg’s texts about Berlin’s and Copenhagen’s urbanity. His texts focus on cultural continuity and historical foundation of modern life.</jats:p