Ungovernable Spaces - James O'Leary

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Résumé :

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate the power of organic social formations over imposed order.

Understanding this formation of community in terms of 'ungovernability' and a 'poetics of resistance', Ungovernable Spaces charts a movement from oppression, through transformation, into imagining, and finally emergence.

Throughout the book, the authors engage methods of situated practice and related modes of writing and image-making to consider a range of global case studies: the destruction of the Mecca apartment building in Chicago's South Side in 1952, following a decade of resistance from the building's predominantly African American occupants...

Biographie:

Kristen Kreider is Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK.

James O'Leary is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.