Politics of the Dunes

Maxwell Woods is a member of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Viña del Mar, Chile. His work has appeared in Social and Cultural Geography, Cultural Dynamics, Cultural Politics, and Literary Geographies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. On So-Called Non-Political Urban Environmentalism: The Architecture of the Open City, Politics, and the PoliticalChapter 2. Refashioning Latin Americanism: The Foundations of the Environmental Urbanism of the Open CityChapter 3. The Eruption of the Political?: Politics, the Political, Hospitality, and the Foundation of the Open CityChapter 4. Thinking Otherwise: Keeping the Open City Open in the DictatorshipChapter 5. On Subaltern Historiography: Thinking the Open City HistoricallyChapter 6. Towards a Decolonial Environmentalism: The Limits and Openings of the Open City’s Environmental UrbanismsConclusion: Socialities, New Openings, and the Lingering Question of CapitalReferencesIndexFigures follow p. 190

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