Nowhere - Space, Time & Modernity (Paper)

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-520-08018-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia—such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the "now" and the "here" that define the modern age.

The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, linguists, sociologists, and historians, explore the temporal and spatial facets of social life. Their range is remarkable and includes English landscape painting, talk in corporations, agoraphobic women, the ecological structure of Los Angeles, the cosmology of the Holocaust, and the ritual spaces of Buddhist Japan and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The editors' introduction addresses the diversity of these empirical concerns and positions them within a rapidly expanding theoretical landscape.

David Hockney's striking painting on the book jacket captures the tension between somewhere and everywhere, between space and place, now and just a moment ago—hence "nowhere" or "now/here."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedland, Roger

Boden, Deirdre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTRIBUTORS:

Ann Bermingham
Richard Biernacki
Deirdre Boden
Roger Friedland
Saul Friedlander
Carol Brooks Gardner
Anthony Giddens
Allan G. Grapard
Richard D. Hecht
Stephen Kern
Harvey L. Molotch
Donald Palmer
Paul Rabinow
A. F. Robertson
Adam Seligman
Edward W. Soja

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Friedland is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is To Rule Jerusalem: The Profane Politics of a Sacred Place, with Richard Hecht (1993). Deirdre Boden is Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University in England and the author of Talk and Social Structure (California, 1991).