A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Foregrounds the constitutive role that various forms of cultural expression play in shaping the relationship between the social and the spatial. Provides a critical platform for investigating the nature of power, difference and oppression – how they are imagined and performed, opposed and subverted.
This volume groups sixteen papers written by Argentinean researchers from geography, as well as history, anthropology, literature, and art history. All the authors try to answer, from various points of view and using different examples, questions such as: What is the relationship between space, territory and their various forms of representation? How do these representations persuade, teach, argue, and even deceive?
The book’s subject matter is Western classical music in historical Palestine. Beckles Willson is not so much interested in musical pieces themselves; her focus is on musical projects, or what she rightly calls, musical missions—projects aimed at researching music, teaching music, setting up orchestras, and opening conservatories.
In this optimistic collection of essays, written over twenty years, Michael E. Gardiner sets out to “rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism” (page 2). In so doing, he provides an engaging re-reading of key writers and traditions able to help us deepen our understanding of utopian social theory and its relationship to the everyday.
In this paper, I develop a minor theory that blurs boundaries between prefigurative direct action and symbolic performance to reconsider strategies for resistance and world-building.