Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City

219 Pages·2013·3.246 MB·English

by  Arijit Sen (Ed.), Lisa Silverman (Ed.)

MAKING
PLACE
Making Place is Volume 8 in the series
21st Century Studies
Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee
Richard Grusin, General Editor
Space and Embodiment in the City
edited by
Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman
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Making place : space and embodiment in the city / edited by Arijit Sen and
Lisa Silverman.
pages cm. — (21st century studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-01142-8 (cl : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-01143-5
(pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-01149-7 (eb) 1. Cities and towns—
Psychological aspects. 2. Cities and towns—Social aspects. 3. Spatial
behavior—Social aspects. 4. Place attachment—Social aspects. 5.
Environmental psychology. I. Sen, Arijit, [date]- II. Silverman, Lisa.
HT153.M32 2014
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C o n t e n t s
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction:
Embodied Placemaking: An Important Category of Critical Analysis /
Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman 1
1.
Placemaking and Embodied Space / Setha Low 19
2.
Visualizing the Body Politic / Swati Chattopadhyay 44

3.
Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001
Group of Eight Summit / Emanuela Guano 69
4.
Eating Ethnicity: Spatial Ethnography of Hyderabad House Restaurant
on Devon Avenue, Chicago / Arijit Sen 95

5.
Urban Boundaries, Religious Experience, and the North West London
Eruv / Jennifer A. Cousineau 126
6.
“Art, Memory, and the City” in Bogotá: Mapa Teatro’s Artistic
Encounters with Inhabited Places / Karen E. Till 148

7.
Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938 /
Lisa Silverman 173
Contributors 199
Index 201

A Ck n o w l e d g m e n t s
Many of the essays in this volume featured in two interdisciplinary sym-
posia held at the at the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University
of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in fall 2010 and spring 2011 titled “Embodied
Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces.” We are grateful to the staff of the
Center, especially director Richard Grusin, associate director John Blum,
former interim director Merry Wiesner-Hanks, and former deputy direc-
tor Kate Kramer for their support in the organization of the symposia and
the publication of this volume. Many thanks are also due to the College
of Letters and Science for the co-sponsorship of the symposia, as well as
to the Graduate School, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning,
the Center for Jewish Studies, the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures collabor-
ative project, the Cultures and Communities Program, the Urban Studies
Program, the Peck School of the Arts, and the Departments of Anthropology
and Geography for their support.
At Indiana University Press, we thank Rebecca Tolen and Sarah Jacobi
for their help and advice, and we thank two external reviewers for insightful
comments that greatly improved the manuscript.
We also wish to thank the following colleagues, friends, and family
for their assistance and encouragement: Cheryl Ajirotutu, Anna Andrze-
jewski, Caitlin Boyle, Simone Ferro, Robert Greenstreet, Marta Gutman,
Ryan Holifield, Gregory Jay, Louis Nelson, Harry van Oudenallen, and
Vaishali Wagh.
Both the symposia and the essays in this volume underscore the emerg-
ing scholarship on the built environment carried out under the aegis of
Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, a new collaborative area of research and
doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and –Madison
that focuses on the study of everyday cultural landscapes. This program
focuses on the study of the built environment within a historical framework,
seeking to understand the relationship between built form and culture as
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well as the complex relationship between cultural practices, material cul-
ture and human agency. Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures affiliates include
students and faculty with diverse research and teaching interests, including
art and architectural history, cultural landscapes, public history, urban his-
tory, and cultural geography.
Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman
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