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Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and historical movements, as well as urban-themed literary and filmic art. Conceived as a response to the persistent rift between disciplinary Marxist approaches to culture, this book prioritizes the urban problematic and builds implicitly and explicitly on work by numerous thinkers: not only Karl Marx but also David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Engels and Antonio Gramsci, among others. Rather than reanimate reductive views either of Marx or of urban theory, the chapters in Marxism and Urban Culture speak broadly to the interdisciplinary connections that are increasingly the concern of cultural scholars working across and beyond the boundaries of geography, sociology, history, political science, language and literature fields, film studies, and more. A foreword written by Andy Merrifield (the author of Metromarxism) and an introduction by Benjamin Fraser (the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience) situate the book’s chapters firmly in interdisciplinary terrain.
Benjamin Fraser is associate professor of Spanish film and cultural studies at the College of Charleston.
TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsForeword: Urbanism as World Culture and Here Comes Everybody by Andy MerrifieldIntroduction: What Is Urban Culture? by Benjamin FraserPart I. MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITYChapter 1. The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial PracticeLes RobertsChapter 2. Capital, Mobility and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando León de Aranoa’s Barrio (1998)Malcolm Alan CompitelloPart II. THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTSChapter 3. Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in José Luis Guerín’s Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007)Benjamin FraserChapter 4. Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir’s La antena (2007)Benjamin FraserPart III. CULTURES OF URBAN PROTESTChapter 5. Psychoprotest: Dérives of the Quebec Maple SpringMarc James Léger and Cayley SorochanChapter 6. The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students’ ‘Happy and Wicked’ Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969Heather A. VranaPart IV. THE HOUSING QUESTIONChapter 7. Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert SilverbergJeff HicksChapter 8. Red Vienna, Class and the CommonKimberly DeFazioPart V. (INTER)NATIONALIZING THE URBANChapter 9. Urban Culture as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Sketch of the Uneven and Combined Transitional Development of Rural and Urban Modern Culture in Europe and EgyptJelle Versieren and Brecht De SmetChapter 10. The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and L.A.: Toward a Comparative HistoryManuel Yang, Takeshi Haraguchi, and Kazuya SakuradaIndexNotes on Contributors
This is a bold, thoughtful, and transformative book on ‘the urban’ as a point of encounter that enables an interdisciplinary understanding and transcending of alienation in urban culture from a Marxist point of view. It is required reading for anyone seeking to challenge the ‘dematerialising’ condition of urban culture in and beyond the academy.
