Spaces of Danger – Culture and Power in the Everyday
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation;
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Product details:
- Publisher LUP – University of Georgia Press
- Date of Publication 1 December 2015
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780820348773
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 black & white photographs, 2 diagrams 0
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Short description:
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred&&&8217;s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of &&&8220;situated ignorance&&&8221;: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences.
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These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred&&&8217;s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of &&&8220;situated ignorance&&&8221;: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployedmisinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin&&&8217;s idea of &&&8220;moments of danger.&&&8221;
The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activistAnders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of theresurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed.
The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting&&&8212;for example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa&&&8212;this volume peels back layers of &&&8220;situated practices and their associated meaning and power relations.&&&8221; Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced.
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