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Spaces of Culture
City, Nation, World

Edited by:

Mike Featherstone - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Scott Lash - University of Oxford, UK

Series:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Other Titles in:
Cultural Theory | Human Geography | Social Theory

March 1999 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

What is culture? How are we to understand the relation between social structure and culture in a world that is becoming increasingly global and which new technologies are making increasingly vital? Spaces of Culture is a critical interrogation of the key coordinates of this global and virtual world: the nation state; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. This discussion extends into a complementary analysis of the public sphere, that questions the reductive representation of technology as a forma of instrumentality, demonstrating how new technologies can offer new spaces of culture. The analysis of public space is essential to an understanding of issues like global citizenship and multicultural human rights. Spaces of Culture will be required reading for students and scholars in sociology, social theory and cultural studies. It will be an essential reference in any critical discussion of the relations between globalization and technology; and culture, politics and the public sphere.

Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash

Introduction

PART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE

Richard Sennett

Growth and Failure

The New Political Economy and Its Culture

Timothy W Luke

Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality

The Political Economy of Cyberspace

Saskia Sassen

Digital Networks and Power

PART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPING

Michael Dear and Steven Flusty

The Postmodern Urban Condition

Hilary Radner

Roaming the City

Proper Women in Improper Places

PART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACE

Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner

Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air

Modernity and Contingency

Ron Eyerman

Moving Culture

Barbara Adam

Radiated Identities

In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices

PART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATION

Michael J Shapiro

Triumphalist Geographies

G[um]oran Dahl

The Anti-Reflexivist Revolution

On the Affirmationism of the New Right

PART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACE

Wolfgang Welsch

Transculturality

The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights

Jonathan Friedman

The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush

Couze Venn

Narrating the Postcolonial

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Mike Featherstone

Scott M Lash

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society. More About Author

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