20 research outputs found
Review of \u3ci\u3eGentlemen, Bourgeois, and Revolutionaries: Political Change and Cultural Persistence among the Spanish Dominant Groups 1750-1850\u3c/i\u3e, by Jesus Cruz
Review of \u3ci\u3eFrom Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era\u3c/i\u3e, edited by Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, and Alan M. Kraut; \u3ci\u3eLetters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants\u3c/i\u3e, edited by Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber, and Suzanne M. Sinke
Chinatowns: Heterotopic Space, Urban Conflict, and Global Meanings
Chinatowns, often considered exotic touristic centers, sites of otherness or global incursions, actually highlight both global social movements and complex urban meanings. The mass migration of millions of Chinese across the world since the mid-19th century has fostered distinctive global heterotopias and transnational populations simultaneously localized in myriad host cities and nations. Hence the meanings of individual Chinatowns, including their roles in urban conflict, must be read ethnographically and comparatively through the wider set of Chinese enclaves worldwide. This essay, building on Saussure, Foucault, Lefebvre, and Turner as well as collaborative fieldwork, argues that Chinatowns constitute key symbols of urban problematic of culture, class and morality legible through paradigmatic and syntagmatic readings in a global dialectic.
Key words: chinatowns; space; conflict; heteropias; Barcelona; Los Angeles.
Resum
Els barris xinesos, moltes vegades considerats centres turĂstics exòtics, llocs de l’alteritat o incursions globals, en realitat desvetllen moviments socials globals i complexos significats urbans. L'emigraciĂł massiva de milions de xinesos pel mĂłn des de mitjan segle XIX, ha creat diverses heterotòpies globals i poblacions transnacionals simultĂ niament localitzades en moltes ciutats i nacions de destĂ. Per tant, el significat de cada barri xinès, incloent el seu paper en el conflicte urbĂ , exigeix una lectura etnogrĂ fica i comparativa, contextualitzada en el mĂ©s ampli conjunt global d'enclavaments xinesos. A partir de les teories de Saussure, Foucault, Lefebvre i Turner, i del treball de camp en grup, se sostĂ© que els barris xinesos constitueixen sĂmbols claus de les problemĂ tiques urbanes de cultura, classe i moralitat, descodificables a travĂ©s de lectures paradigmĂ tiques i sintagmĂ tiques dins d'una dialèctica global.
Paraules clau: : barris xinesos; espai; conflicte; heterotòpies; Barcelona; Los Angeles
Review of \u3ci\u3eFrom Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijon, 1900-1937\u3c/i\u3e, by Pamela Beth Radcliff
Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation\u3c/i\u3e, by Henry Kamen
Review of \u3ci\u3eA Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona, 1728-1832\u3c/i\u3e, by J.K.L. Thomson
Review of \u3ci\u3eA Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona, 1728-1832\u3c/i\u3e, by J.K.L. Thomson
Review of \u3ci\u3eRed City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso\u27s Barcelona\u3c/i\u3e, by Temma Kaplan
Review of \u3ci\u3eGentlemen, Bourgeois, and Revolutionaries: Political Change and Cultural Persistence among the Spanish Dominant Groups 1750-1850\u3c/i\u3e, by Jesus Cruz
Modelling Barcelona
Este texto panorámico, de carácter introductorio, sirve como presentación de un libro con el mismo título que aparecerá en el mercado norteamericano en los próximos meses. Se trata de una aproximación histórica que, tras identificar en un estilo braudeliano la ubicación de la ciudad en su contexto mediterráneo, pretende destacar las huellas de su conformación como ciudad global a través de las diferentes fases de plenitud y crisis que se han sucedido a lo largo de mil años de historia, forjando las capas que configuran hoy el palimpsesto urbano barcelonés. Las etapas que se narran son las siguientes: 1) la expansión comercial y colonial mediterránea durante la Edad Media hasta su crisis en el siglo xv, 2) los efectos en la ciudad de la vinculación dinástica de Cataluña con Castilla en la era de la expansión colonial americana, 3) la industrialización, etapa de crecimiento urbano, de luchas sociales y de conformación de la ciudad burguesa y de una identidad nacional, 4) la otra Barcelona de la industrialización: luchas sociales, conflicto y contestación urbana, 5) la Barcelona de la era franquista y 6) la Barcelona posmoderna, desde las Olimpiadas hasta la actualidad. Junto a esta visión panorámica, el texto ofrece una abundante selección bibliográfica que abarca desde estudios etnográficos e históricos hasta obras literarias y otras fuentes de documentación social.This panoramic and introductory text serves as a presentation to a book of the same title that will appear in the US market in the coming months. It is a historical approach that, after using a Braudelian approach to identify the location of Barcelona in its Mediterranean context, aims to show the various periods of abundance and crisis during its thousand-year history that have made it the global city that it is today and formed the layers that make up the city’s modern urban palimpsest. The periods discussed are: 1. commercial and colonial expansion in the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages until the crisis in the fifteenth century, 2. the impact on the city of the dynastic union of Catalonia and Castile during the era of colonial expansion in America, 3. industrialization and urban growth, a period of social struggle during which the bourgeois city and national identity were created, 4. the other side of Barcelona during industrialization: social strife, conflict and urban opposition, 5. the Barcelona of the Franco era and 6. the postmodern Barcelona: from the Olympics to the present day. Alongside this overview, the text offers a substantial bibliography ranging from ethnographic and historical studies to literary texts and other sources of social documentation