The End of Tradition?

by AlSayyad; Nezar

• ISBN13: 9780415290418
• ISBN10: 0415290414
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter the book is divided into three parts. The three chapters in part I explore the inextricable link between 'tradition' and 'modern', revealing the geopolitical implications of this link. Part II looks at tradition as aprocess of invention and here the three chapters are all concerned with the making of landscapes and landscape myths, showing how the spectacle of history can be aestheticized and naturalized. Finally, Part III shows how traditionis a regime, programmed and policed and how it has been deployed, resisted, and reworked through hegemonic struggles that seek to create both built environments and citizen-subjects.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Illustration credits and sources	ix
Contributors	xi
The End of Tradition, or the Tradition of Endings?	1	(28)
Nezar AlSayyad
I. Traditions of the Modern
Tradition is (not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization	29	(16)
Jane M. Jacobs
The Tradition of the End: Global Capitalism and the Contemporary Spaces of Apocalypse	45	(18)
Katharyne Mitchell
Nostalgias of the Modern	63	(24)
Ananya Roy
II. Invented Landscapes
Nature and Tradition at the Border: Landscaping the End of the Nation State	87	(29)
Matthew Sparke
The Tensed Embrace of Tourism and Traditional Environments: Exclusionary Practices in Cancun, Cuba, and Southern Florida	116	(28)
Robert Mugerauer
Architecture and the Production of Postcard Images: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba	144	(27)
Clara Irazabal
III. Programmes of Tradition
Tradition as a Means to the End of Tradition: Farmers' Houses in Italy's Fascist-Era New Towns	171	(16)
Mia Fuller
Cultural Identity and Architectural Image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town	187	(23)
Fabro Iodeschini
Derek Japha
The Latency of Tradition: On the Vicissitudes of Walls in Contemporary China	210	(21)
Duanfang Lu
Seizing Locality in Jerusalem	231	(25)
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Selected Bibliography	256	(2)
Index	258