| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Ingram Digital E-books (T & F), 2008-2014.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-257) and index. |
| Contents |
The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad -- Tradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs -- The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell -- Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy -- Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke -- The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer -- Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal -- Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller -- Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha -- The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu -- Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan. |
| Summary |
Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tradition (Philosophy)
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Tradition (Philosophy) |
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
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Globalization -- Political aspects.
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Globalization -- Political aspects. |
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Globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
AlSayyad, Nezar.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: End of tradition?. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415290406 0415290414 (DLC) 2003018044 (OCoLC)52978977 |
| ISBN |
0203421337 (electronic book) |
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9780203421338 (electronic book) |
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0203674790 |
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9780203674796 |
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9780415290401 |
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0415290406 |
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9780415290418 |
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0415290414 |
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9786610057702 |
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6610057702 |
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0415290414 (Paper) |
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0415290406 |
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