The structural transformation of the lettered city : the politics of culture and territory in modern Bogotá, Colombia
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is an history and analysis the cultural and territorial policies and thinking of lettered elites in modern Bogotá, Colombia. Building upon the work of Ángel Rama, who coined the term the lettered city to describe the close relation between lettered elites and the state apparatus during the colonial and postcolonial periods in Latin America, this study focuses on the cultural, social, institutional, and policy transformations of the Colombian lettered city centered in Bogotá between the end of the nineteenth and the end of the twentieth centuries. The analysis of the transformation of the bogotano lettered city is framed against the backdrop of the development of modernity as a global complex structured by what the philosopher Eduardo Mendieta argues are two axes standing in tension: a vertical axis of capitalist globalization imposed from above; and a horizontal axis of cosmopolitan globalization based on the implementation of what Jürgen Habermas calls the principle of democracy. This study looks first at the rise to power of a reactionary lettered city in Bogotá at the end of the nineteenth century. It then traces the transformation of this letrocracy into a technocracy during the postwar era, a process reflected in the development of modern architecture and urban planning in Bogotá. The study ends with an analysis of the politics of culture and territory of Bogotá's mayors at the end of the 1990s, arguing that these policies are marked by the influence of the lettered city. The principal argument of this dissertation is that the persistence of the lettered city in the Colombian context is due to various structural factors: from the geographical division of the Colombian territory to Colombia's position of economic dependency within the modern world system.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Melo, Juan Pablo |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Barry, Fabio |
| Thesis advisor | Denson, Shane |
| Thesis advisor | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Ma, Jean, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Barry, Fabio |
| Degree committee member | Denson, Shane |
| Degree committee member | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
| Degree committee member | Ma, Jean, 1972- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Juan Pablo Melo. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bt143qp7255 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Juan Pablo Melo
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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