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Modernism at the Beach
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Modernism at the Beach

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance—a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness. The beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the p...

Transforming Urban Waterfronts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Transforming Urban Waterfronts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-10-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on how waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean. It brings together authors from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to tackle vital questions of waterfront development.

Habits of the Heartland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Habits of the Heartland

Although most Americans no longer live in small towns, images of small-town life, and particularly of the mutual support and neighborliness to be found in such places, remain powerful in our culture. In Habits of the Heartland, Lyn C. Macgregor investigates how the residents of Viroqua, Wisconsin, population 4,355, create a small-town community together. Macgregor lived in Viroqua for nearly two years. During that time she gathered data in public places, attended meetings, volunteered for civic organizations, talked to residents in their workplaces and homes, and worked as a bartender at the local American Legion post. Viroqua has all the outward hallmarks of the idealized American town; the...

Beach Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Beach Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2025-01-21
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"What do confrontations over beach use--the various restrictions, justifications, and access conflicts-tell us about contemporary politics? They remind us that shorelines-especially their most coveted parts, sandy beaches-are a reflection-and refraction-of contemporary political and economic struggles. In the most general terms, this book focuses on these struggles-especially as they are grounded in a particular time and space-that is, beach "politics.""--

Objets & mémoires
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 266

Objets & mémoires

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Privileging Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Privileging Place

"Over the past several decades and increasingly since the beginning of the pandemic, second homeowners have left a distinctive mark across both rural and urban America. As wealthy elites reallocate capital into housing investments other than their primary residence, they extend the breadth of their influence to places as different as the backwoods of northern Maine and the cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill. Across these varied geographies, the purchase of second homes has become a social problem, placing pressure on housing markets, igniting political tensions, and putting strain on local community dynamics. While this movement of capital may be in part motivated by financial returns, this ...

Being Here and Being There
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Being Here and Being There

Contemporary ethnography is much too large, too diverse, too contentious to be represented in its entirety in a single collection of articles. This unique volume of The Annals, offers the rare chance to learn what ethnographers are doing in the field as well as the different approaches taken and styles used in conducting fieldwork. It also provides poignant insight for public policy students and practitioners. The articles included in this volume reflect a wide range of stories and researchers from around the country and around the world. Taken together they provide the big picture of the challenges and boons of fieldwork and examined experiences.

Habitat : les micro-espaces de la santé
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 257

Habitat : les micro-espaces de la santé

Les micro-espaces de la santé incitent à renouveler l’approche géographique de l’habitat. Ils invitent à se concentrer sur l’espace vécu dans sa dimension architecturale la plus concrète. Ce numéro de Géographie et Cultures s’intéresse aux immeubles, chambres, courants d’air, quartiers et zones d’aménagement. La notion de santé dont il est question, recouvre l’action en faveur du bien-être physique, et mental et social qui conduit à prendre soin des territoires et des personnes par des activités de Care. Les observations de la santé résidentielle soulignent des enjeux essentiels pour la qualité de vie. Si le courant hygiéniste a introduit l’aération et la v...

Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe

"In this volume the authors examine the history of the family during the twentieth century in the context of political struggles over the welfare state, gender roles and parental authority. They ask how far political measures have contributed to changes in family life, and whether these should be understood as a weakening, or as a redefinition of traditional kinship roles."--

Becoming Other
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Becoming Other

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing experiences. From Napoleon doppelgangers to Philip Roth's alter-ego Nathan Zukerman and Wonder Woman cosplayers to anthropologists going native, he delves into the kaleidoscopic nature of the self and attempts to understand the heterogenous nature of identity. But Becoming Other also discusses a great cultural controversy of our time: who has the right to play at being whom?