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    Swinging City : A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974 (2011)
    Farnham : Routledge
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    ISBN: 9780754689157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (200 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Re-materialising Cultural Geography
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rycroft, Simon, 1966 - Swinging city
    DDC: 942.1085
    RVK:
    LB 72190
    RVK:
    MS 1870
    Keywords: Cultural geography -- England -- London ; Counterculture -- England -- London ; London (England) -- Civilization -- 20th century ; Electronic books ; local ; Counterculture ; England ; London ; Cultural geography ; England ; London ; London (England) ; Civilization ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; England ; London ; Kulturgeographie ; Kultursoziologie ; Geschichte 1950-1974 ; Cultural geography ; England ; London ; Counterculture ; England ; London ; London (England) ; Civilization ; 20th century ; London ; Anthropogeografie ; Gegenkultur ; Jugendkultur ; Subkultur ; Geschichte 1950-1974
    Abstract: This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a post-imperial global city. Swinging London it argues, emerged as the product of this recapitalisation, by absorbing avant-garde developments from the provinces and a range of transnational, mainly transatlantic, influences.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Material and Immaterial Geographies of 1960s London -- 2 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture I: Beat and Angry -- 3 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture II: Architecture and Visual Culture -- 4 Mapping Swinging London -- 5 A Historical Geography of Countercultural London -- 6 Rephrasing and Reimagining Dissent: Technology, Nature and Humanity -- 7 Oz, London and Cosmic Consciousness -- 8 Lightshows and Multi-media Environments: Cosmic Connections and the Countercultural Subject -- 9 Conclusions: Post-War Vision and Representation -- References -- Index.
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    Capital, Interrupted : Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India (2008)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816656578 , 9780816649587 , 0816649596 , 0816649588 , 9780816649594
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (364 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gidwani, Vinay K., 1965 - Capital, interrupted
    DDC: 338.1095475
    RVK:
    LB 55385
    Keywords: Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Agrarsoziologie ; Ethnologie ; Soziale Lage ; Kapitalismus ; Agrarpolitik ; Gujarat ; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Canada ; Food industy and trade -- Canada ; Farm produce -- Canada -- Marketing ; Local foods -- Canada ; Patidars Social conditions ; Patidars Economic conditions ; Capitalism Philosophy ; Agriculture Economic aspects ; Capitalism History ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Agriculture ; Economic aspects ; India ; Gujarat ; Capitalism ; India ; Gujarat ; History ; Capitalism ; Philosophy ; Patidars ; Economic conditions ; Patidars ; Social conditions ; Gujarat ; Landwirtschaft ; Geschichte 1800- ; Patidars ; Geschichte 1800-
    Abstract: The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its broad implications for the nature of labor and capital worldwide. With the Patels as his central case, Gidwani interrogates established concepts of value, development, and the relationship between capital and history. Capitalism, he argues, is not a frame of economic organization based on the smooth, consistent operation of a series of laws, but rather an assemblage of contingent and interrupted logics stitched together into the appearance of a deus ex machina. Following this line of thinking, Gidwani points to ways in which political economy might be freed of its lingering Eurocentrism, raises questions about the adequacy of postcolonial studies critique of Marx and capitalism, and opens the possibility of situating capitalism as a geographically uneven social formation in which different normative or value-creating practices are imperfectly sutured together in ways that can equally impair and enable profit and accumulation.Both theoretically astute and empirically informed, Capital, Interrupted unsettles encrusted understandings of staple concepts within the human sciences such as hegemony, governmentality, caste, and agency and, ultimately, does nothing less than rethink the very constitution of capitalism.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Sutures -- ONE: Waste -- TWO: Birth -- THREE: Machine -- FOUR: Distinction -- FIVE: Interruption -- Afterword: Aporia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction: Sutures; ONE: Waste; TWO: Birth; THREE: Machine; FOUR: Distinction; FIVE: Interruption; Afterword: Aporia; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
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