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Lived Topographies And Their Mediational Forces

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ISBN-10: 0739105760

ISBN-13: 9780739105764

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Chad Kautzer, Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh, Eduardo Mendieta

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This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars who give a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place.
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Book details

List price: $51.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 4/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.86" wide x 8.96" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Chad Kautzer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Social Justice Minor at the University of Colorado-Denver. He is co-editor, with Eduardo Mendieta, of Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Introduction
Narrative or semiotic mediation
Exploration in dead space : the East End of London, England
"The whole land is sacred" - story and the Navajo sense of place
Terra Incognita/Terra Nullius : modern imperialism, maps, and deception
Land makes the man : topography and national character in German schoolbooks
Technological mediation
Totalitarian topographies : ground zero of embargo zones
Between battlefield and battlescape : info-age technology and the topography of war
Daniel Libeskind : from the end of architecture to the space of memory
Mediation by surveillance
Utilitarian topographies of the public : state surveillance and the case for public anonymity
Categorial imperatives for fugitive slaves : some topographical axioms of deontology