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Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space
Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space offers a rigorous analysis and revival of Lefebvre’s works and the context in which he produced them. Biagi traces the historical-critical time-frame of Lefebvre's intellectual investigations, bringing to light a theoretical constellation in which historical methods intersect with philosophical and sociological issues: from Marxist political philosophy to the birth of urban sociology; from rural studies to urban and everyday life studies in the context of capitalism. Examining Lefebvre’s extended investigations into the urban sphere as well as highlighting his goal of developing a “general political theory of space” and of innovating Marxist thought, and clarifying the various (more or less accurate) meanings attributed to Lefebvre's concept of the “right to the city” (analysed in the context of the French and international sociological and philosophical-political debate), Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space ultimately brings the contours of Lefebvre’s innovative perspective—itself developed at the end of the “short twentieth century”—back into view in all its richness and complexity.
Migración transnacional de los Andes a Europa y Estados Unidos
Actas del seminario Dinámicas de las migraciones transnacionales de los países andinos a Europa y Estados Unidos. Causas y efectos socioeconómicos y espaciales.
Henri Lefebvre on Space
Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.
Rereading Camara Laye
Camara Laye (1928?80) traveled to France from his native Guinea in 1947 on a scholarship to study automobile mechanics. While there, he was encouraged by a supporterøof the French Union to record the memories of his childhood. The resulting book, L'Enfant noir, was praised for its style and its uncritical attitude toward French colonization. A year later Laye published Le Regard du roi, a Kafkaesque story of a white man in Africa, which was very different in tone, style, and content from L'Enfant noir and from any other African literature being published at the time. L'Enfant noir and Le Regard du roi became seminal works of African fiction in French and were translated into English as The ...
Le Roman comme laboratoire
La compréhension du monde contemporain ne peut pas se faire en tournant le dos à la production artistique de son époque. Mais alors qu'au 19e siècle, le roman réaliste et la sociologie naissante se sont naturellement inspirés, la conversation entre sciences sociales et littérature s'est progressivement brouillée et affaiblie. Ce processus est même devenu extrême en France, où une critique, inlassablement reprise depuis des années, a décrété la production romanesque actuelle comme désocialisée, insignifiante et enfermée dans les arcanes du moi. Ce livre est animé par une toute autre conviction, celle que certaines ?uvres recèlent, à condition de bien savoir les lire, des ...
A Time of Transition in the French Novel
The years around 1930 are marked by turning points in most areas of French life, and the fiction of the time is a privileged means of understanding those changes. This book traces vital transitions in French politics, society, and culture; the focus then moves to the novel, a genre uniquely equipped to reflect topical shifts and breakthroughs.
The Ethnographic Optic
The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire. Focusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais, author Laure Astourian elucidates their striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to scrutinizing their own French urban culture. As awareness of the ramifications of the shrinking empire grew within metropolitan France, these filmmakers turned inward what their similarly white, urban, bourgeois predecessors had long turned outward toward the colonies: the ethnographic gaze. Featuring some of the most canonical and best-loved films of the French tradition, such as Moi, un Noir, La jetée, and Muriel, this is an essential book for readers interested in national identity and cinema.
