Selling EthniCity

Olaf Kaltmeier

ISBN 10: 1138268410 / ISBN 13: 9781138268418

Editore: Routledge Nov 2016, 2016

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city and demonstrates how the use of ethnicized cultural production - such as urban branding based on local identities - by the economic elite raises issues of considerable concern in terms of local identities, as it deploys a practical logic of capital exchange that can overcome forms of cultural resistance and strengthen the hegemonic colonization of everyday life. At the same time, it shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible. Of wide ranging interest across academic disciplines, this book will be a useful contribution to Inter-American studies. 308 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Selling EthniCity
• Editore: Routledge Nov 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138268410
• ISBN 13: 9781138268418
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city and demonstrates how the use of ethnicized cultural production - such as urban branding based on local identities - by the economic elite raises issues of considerable concern in terms of local identities, as it deploys a practical logic of capital exchange that can overcome forms of cultural resistance and strengthen the hegemonic colonization of everyday life. At the same time, it shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible. Of wide ranging interest across academic disciplines, this book will be a useful contribution to Inter-American studies.

Informazioni sull?autore

Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor for Transnational History of the Americas at Bielefeld University, Germany