Embodying Cape Town

Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-58710-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.  It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental questions:  how does material culture reflect the way social agents make meaning through bodily contact with urban built form, and how does such meaning challenge the ways bodies are objectified?  Further, how can we make sense of the historical processes embedded in the objectification of bodies without treating the social and the material, the mental and the physical as separate realities?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Shannon M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.-2. Making Englishness.-3. Forgetting District Six.-4. Redistributing Personhood.-5. Alternative by Design.

Über Autor(innen)

Shannon M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Missouri, Kansas, USA.