Politics of the Dunes

Maxwell Woods is a member of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Universidad Adolfo Ibanez in Vina del Mar, Chile. His work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Cultural Dynamics, Cultural Politics, and Literary Geographies.

• IntroductionChapter 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 CapitalIndex

"With intelligence, intuition, and clarity the author makes an argument for revisiting long-established assumptions about the Open City, in favor of a nuanced reading that intertwines matters of architecture and urbanism, environmentalism, decolonial studies, and critical theory". Andreea Mihalache, Clemson University"This is a highly valuable addition to the scholarship around the Open City, and for those who are interested in alternate models of social cohesion around living, work and learning". Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Knowlton School of Architecture