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Retail ruins : the ghosts of post-industrial spectacle /

In the context of widespread precarity and ongoing crises, ruins have captured much attention in recent years. This book is about a troubling new kind of space for consumer society: the retail ruin. Drawing on the author's own fieldnotes and photographs, this book takes a hauntological approach...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Jacob C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Colección:Bristol shorts research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Retail Ruins: The Ghosts of Post-Industrial Spectacle
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • One What Are Retail Ruins?
  • Introduction
  • What are ruins?
  • Spectacle and ruination
  • Assemblage thinking and contemporary archaeology
  • Hauntology
  • Methodology and the question of context
  • Two Retail Ruins
  • Introduction
  • Dream messages
  • Mud prints
  • Splatter Town
  • Summary: Temporality and rhythms of retail ruins
  • The impossibility of (exiting) ruins
  • Three Spectacle, Haunted
  • Introduction
  • Post-industrial North-East
  • Urban exorcisms
  • Gentrification
  • Retail gentrification
  • Heritage-led strategies
  • Temporary urbanism
  • After spectacle (towards a conclusion)
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index