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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.103
EAN num: 9780262550659
ISBN number: 0262550652
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: October 31, 2007
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In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw 'spatial products'—resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions, in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces—familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade—aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such 'real estate cocktails' provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence.
These regimes of nonnational sovereignty, she writes, 'move around the world like weather fronts'; Easterling focuses not on their blending—their global connectivity—but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue. Enduring Innocence resists the dream of one globally legible world found in many architectural discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.
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