The end of tradition? /

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Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: AlSayyad, Nezar
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Subjects:
Tradition (Philosophy)
Globalization > Social aspects.
Globalization > Political aspects.
Tradition.
Mondialisation > Aspect social.
Mondialisation > Aspect politique.
traditionalism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad
  • Tradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs
  • The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell
  • Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy
  • Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke
  • The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer
  • Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal
  • Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller
  • Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha
  • The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu
  • Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.

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