Culture, Space, and Power

David Walton is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Murcia.Juan A. Suárez teaches American studies at the University of Murcia.

• Introduction: Culture, Space and Power: Blurred LinesJuan Antonio Suárez and David WaltonPART ONE Reading urban and national space1 Place, Space and the Politics of MemoryChris Weedon2 Queer Space and Cultural Memory in the Films of Barbara Hammer, Katrina Del Mar, and Fadia AbboudJuan A Suárez 3 Blinking Spaces: Koyaanisqatsi’s Cinematic City Iván Villarmea Álvarez4 The Immaterial Factory and the Metropolitan Body: Toni Negri, Rem Koolhaas, and the Sociology of AssociationsMiguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel5 Land as a Space for Discursive Loyalty: On the Public Sphere and Immobility during China’s ModernizationG. Kentak Son6 Se los comió el norte: Space, Globalization and Latino Art as Strategy of ResistanceJuan A. Tarancón7 Music, Body, and City: Joy Division’s Positive Negative SpaceJ. Rubén Valdés MiyaresPART TWOReading spaces of intimacy8 Mediatized Spaces of IntimacyJohn Storey9 Queering Prison Space in HBO’s OzCornelia Wächter10 The Home as a Rough Habitat in The WireElisa Hernández11 Cosmopolitan Space and Generic Boundaries in Hollywood Overseas RomancesManuela Ruiz REFERENCESINDEXABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

“An impressive and wide-ranging set of international essays interrogating the idea and experience of space from theoretical, media, and cultural perspectives. An insistent consideration of questions of power and (geo-)politics informs all readings. Highly recommended.”