Barcelona, City of Margins
"Sendra Ferrer sees her work as a recovery project, and the findings are illuminating and intriguing. The book is not an easy read, but it includes extremely valuable information and arguments."
E. H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University, <em>CHOICE Connect</em>
Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. Les mer
Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that occur from peripheral zones – those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization.
In search of the origins of the protest movements and counter culture that would come in the final years of the Franco regime, Barcelona, City of Margins asserts the value of urban movement and cultural practice as a challenge to the spatial and urbanistic regime of Francoism.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781487508487
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
"Sendra Ferrer sees her work as a recovery project, and the findings are illuminating and intriguing. The book is not an easy read, but it includes extremely valuable information and arguments."
E. H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University, <em>CHOICE Connect</em>
"Barcelona, City of Margins is an impressive piece of scholarship, uncovering the dialogic interaction between centre and margins, to provide new important insights into Barcelona’s urban and sociocultural history."
John McCulloch, The Bulletin of Spanish Studies Trust, <em>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</em>