The Geopolitics of Spectacle : Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia /
"Develops a geographic approach to the politics of spectacle and its unspectacular Others through examining recent spectacular capital city development projects in seven authoritarian, resource-rich states of Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Asia"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : spectacular urbanism and the new capitals of Asia
- Approaching spectacle geographically
- From Almaty to Astana : capitalizing the territory in Kazakhstan
- From Astana to Aral : making inequality enchant in Kazakhstan's hinterlands
- From Astana to Asia : spectacular cities and the new capitals of Asia compared
- Conclusion : synecdoche and the geopolitics of spectacular urbanism in Asia.