Segregation of Alien Bodies: Order and Exclusion

• Authors: Rewers Ewa
• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

In this essay the author explores the relation between fragmentation, segregation, and reconstitution of urban order. Although metaphors of cohesiveness are usually applied to the past, and fragmentations to the present, nevertheless the city of fragmentations coexists recently with another image of the city – a nostalgic city of lived body. It will be hard to speak in simple notions of true and false experience here; the difference is in the very idea of Aristotelian “the good life”. Dealing with Edward Soja’s concept of somatography she will argue that in an age of informational technologies, mobility, and consumer culture, such old metaphors like city as a fragmented dead body and city as a lived body are more important than ever. Acts of differentiation, separation, and segregations are based both on urban somatophobia and urban somatophilia. The question to be asked here is what is reconstitution of urban order in the first sense, or revitalisation of city space in the second.

Keywords

EN

urban order; fragmentation of urban space; segregation; revitalisation

PL

ład miejski; fragmentacja przestrzeni miejskiej; segregacja; rewitalizacja

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2009
• Issue: numer specjalny / special issue
• Pages: 23-36

Contributors

author

Rewers Ewa

• Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University

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