Essays about: "Henri Lefebvre"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words Henri Lefebvre.
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11. Street Music, City Rhythms : The urban soundscape as heard by street musicians
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskapAbstract : The soundscape plays a key, if often overlooked, role in the construction of public urban space. Street music – a conscious deliberate propagation of sound in public space – opens an entryway into comprehending the role of sound in the city, and what it reveals about the city’s inhabitants. READ MORE
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12. The Process of Commoning in Suderbyn Ecovillage : Rural Lessons for a Multi-scalar Right to the City
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Henri Lefebvre’s radical call for “the right to the city” as a step in his wider utopian project of societal transformation has attracted much academic interest in the 21st century. A central problematic for advancing this idea, however, is how to take the leap from experimental heterotopies to a new form of urban commons that could provide the foundation for this new society. READ MORE
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13. Space, Class, and Revolutions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : This essay connects to an ongoing discussion and debate on the usefulness and accuracy of the theories and the conceptual apparatus developed by the French theorist Henri Lefebvre. From an analytical reading of Lefebvre’s book The Urban Revolution, I make an original interpretation of Lefebvre’s arguments by tracing them back to Hegel’s syllogism and Marx’s two departments of social reproduction. READ MORE
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14. Concept, Space, Home: A Conceptual History of Social Space, Functionalist Homes, and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : The field of Conceptual History is often criticized for considering only a small slice of the historical vocabulary it intends to historicize. What about the discourse of the silenced, working at home, robbed of a pen? Concepts are indicative of many contexts of meaning: in this thesis, therefore, propelled by the foregoing question and statement, it is argued that the main protagonist of German, conceptual history, i. READ MORE
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15. City centre rhythms: The case of gender in Dotonbori
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälleAbstract : Traditional social practice holds the urban night and day in binary opposition – each with a set of unique issues and problems to deal with. While such an attitude can be beneficial due to its clearness, it is at a risk of oversimplifying the fluidity of timespaces. READ MORE
