The Fight To Stay Put

Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change

Unter Mitarbeit von Christina Kerz (Red.)

The Fight To Stay Put

Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change

Unter Mitarbeit von Christina Kerz (Red.)

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The title of this book – The Fight to Stay Put – is both an homage to and a play on Chester Hartman’s 1984 manifesto, The Right to Stay Put. It is here where Hartman first makes the case that property 'ownership' must be approached as much more than simply a purely economic matter: it is affective, it is emotional, it is personal. How people connect to place indelibly matters. On the one hand, fights to stay put can be seen as representations of struggles for social justice as they relate to place. On the other, they can be seen as the inevitable non-representational outcomes of territorial conflicts where fights for and over affective connections to place clash with those seeking monetary profit and power through re-productions of space.

Media provides a particularly illuminating window into such fights and the social lessons that can be learned from them because of its ability to readily reveal intersecting narratives and wider processes impacting and composing place. These capacities of media are, perhaps, more important than ever today as forces of neo-liberal globalization and urban transformation and change continue to decentralize space. The trajectories of these fights and how they work through different concrete and imagined media landscapes form the basis of this book.

"[T]he book succeeds in balancing philosophical theories with practical life. It is interesting to read and broadens the view with particular regard to the role of media in social interaction."

Alexander Adick, Erdkunde 68, 2014/3
Reihe Media Geography at Mainz
Band 3
ISBN 978-3-515-10212-4
Medientyp Buch - Kartoniert
Auflage 1.
Copyrightjahr 2013
Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag
Umfang 271 Seiten
Abbildungen 86 s/w Abb.
Format 17,0 x 24,0 cm
Sprache Englisch