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1. Spatial identity and power

1. Spatial identity and power. Post-structuralist view: - place and community as construction - exclusion and inclusion - dominant representationű Space in society Strategies and tactics The ‘other’. 2. A case study 1.: Kreuzberg (Berlin) .

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1. Spatial identity and power

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  1. 1. Spatial identity and power • Post-structuralist view: - place and community as construction - exclusion and inclusion - dominant representationű • Space in society • Strategies and tactics • The ‘other’.

  2. 2. A case study 1.: Kreuzberg (Berlin) • Multiculturalism and alternative lifestyles • Local alternative politics and countercultures • The heterogenous place – the ‘other’ • The ‘stolen home’ effect –chaos, criminality and ghetto

  3. 3. Case study 1. (cont.) • Dominant representation: exclusionary (the ‘other’) • Reformatory discourse: integration (urban management) • Evasive tactics: (divisions) • 1. ‘us’ and the ‘others’ • 2. blame it on the ‘others’ • 3. political consciousness (territory of belonging)

  4. 4. Case study 2.: St. Pauli (Hamburg) • An inner-urban periphery • Stigmatisation as deviant place • Identity from counter position – resisting the urban policies of Hamburg • An alternative, heterogenious open space – localised culture • The ‘other’ turned into consciousness • The critical identity

  5. Case Study 3– Nation and state in global society

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  7. 7. The three way concepts • The anglo saxon concept: reality and social liberalism (You are, what you deserve) • The French aspects: the ideal and the revolution (You are part of humanity) • The Central European (German) way: fusion and synthesis (You are member of society) • The global concept: the transnationalisation of the anglo-saxon formula (You are what you can achieve)

  8. 8. Who are we? The challenge to America’s national identity • The Huntington vision about the clash of civilisations • Huntington about the USA: - American language - civic rights and virtues - republican self.governance - Anglo-protestant political culture - American civic identity and civic patriotism

  9. 9. The clash with the Latinos • Huntington’s nightmare: - Latino immigration (45%) - spatial organisation - monolingual and cultural homogenous community - hostile and resistant to be absorbed and integrated - Deconstruction of the American culture

  10. Modernistic: - development and fragmentation as tragic - Incoherent development - rationality and rationalisation - emancipation Global: - development and fragmentation as positive factors - the celebration of consumerism and the NEW - Meaninglessness and nonsense – happy life concept 10. The modernistic and global culture

  11. Quotations: „In a postmodern society there are no originals, only copies” (Jean Baudrillard) „Globalisation equals to life, and thus any criticism against it, serves death.” (Anthony Giddens)

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