Domesticated Counterculture: Art, Space, and Politics in the Gentrified City
MétisPresses| N° d'inventaire | 22763 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 294 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940563579 |
Long a driving force behind the challenge to urban development models and a hotbed of artistic experimentation, alternative cultural circles are now widely integrated into contemporary forms of urban production. Examining the genesis and contemporary challenges of this reversal allows us to understand the ambiguities specific to European cities, which are seeing the last spaces of freedom and creativity disappear as gentrification progresses. To study this institutionalization of countercultures, the book draws on a series of field studies in Geneva, Lisbon, and Ljubljana, which highlight a new "post-counterculture" regime, in which urban and cultural issues are now inseparable. The domesticated counterculture thus offers a new perspective on the spatial and political metamorphoses of European cities and questions in particular the aporia of the "creative city" which proclaims the reconciliation between culture and the economy, even though it physically excludes the most marginal and radical fringes of the worlds of art and civil society.
Long a driving force behind the challenge to urban development models and a hotbed of artistic experimentation, alternative cultural circles are now widely integrated into contemporary forms of urban production. Examining the genesis and contemporary challenges of this reversal allows us to understand the ambiguities specific to European cities, which are seeing the last spaces of freedom and creativity disappear as gentrification progresses. To study this institutionalization of countercultures, the book draws on a series of field studies in Geneva, Lisbon, and Ljubljana, which highlight a new "post-counterculture" regime, in which urban and cultural issues are now inseparable. The domesticated counterculture thus offers a new perspective on the spatial and political metamorphoses of European cities and questions in particular the aporia of the "creative city" which proclaims the reconciliation between culture and the economy, even though it physically excludes the most marginal and radical fringes of the worlds of art and civil society.