Παρουσίαση
Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale - almost every aspect of Latin American life has its place and time in the public plaza. In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary study, Setha M. Low explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social and economic relations within its city.Low centers her study on two plazas in San Jose, Costa Rica, with comparisons to public plazas in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. She interweaves ethnography, history, literature, and personal narrative to capture the ambiance and meaning of the plaza. She also uncovers the contradictory ethnohistories of the European and indigenous origins of the Latin American plaza and explains why the plaza is often a politically contested space. (from the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
List of IllustrationsPreface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Chapter One: Notes from the Field
A Personal Account
Chapter Two: Public Space and Culture
The Case of the Latin American Plaza
Part II: Histories
Chapter Three: The History of the Plaza in San Jose, Costa Rica
The Political Symbolism of Public Space
Chapter Four: The European History of the Plaza
Power Relations and Architectural Interpretation
Chapter Five: The Indigenous History of the Plaza
The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations
Part III: Ethnographies
Chanter Six: Spatializing Culture
The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space
Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference
The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life
Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest
The Plaza as Art and Commodity
Part IV: Conversations
Chapter Nine: The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature
Imagined Places
Chapter Ten: Conversations on the Plaza
Remembered Places
Chapter Eleven: Public Space, Politics, and Democracy
Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms
Bibliography
Index
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