The gilded renewal : capital, politics, and the re-fashioning of Marseille
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- By labeling Marseille's urban renewal gilded, this dissertation argues that the city's rehabilitation is inherently spectacular. Marseille's EuroMediterranean renovation participates in a profound mystification of the social relations of capital accumulation and state governance, visible in the limits of the discursive understandings of the changing city center. As the French State works to take Marseille from murder capital to fashion capital, the material and discursive spectacle of the transformation of urban space and cultural life obscures not only the city's entrenched poverty, ethnic divisions, and housing insecurity, but, even more disconcerting, the increasing imbrication of state and capital and the abandonment of the city's political sphere. In this quest for demystification, I uncover how the process of refashioning Marseille devolves into the production and circulation of spectacles of renewal by tracing the networks and social relations of a diverse cast of actors, including city and state officials, real estate developers, urban planners, business owners, and fashion designers. Finally, I question the possibility of the resuscitation of the political sphere by examining how several citizen-led associations and the networks they constitute articulate alternative ways of living together in the struggle over the meaning, image, and experience of urban space and the future of Marseille.
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 | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Dedrick, Elandre Marcellus |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Degree committee member | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Degree committee member | Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- |
| Degree committee member | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Elandre M. Dedrick. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Elandre Marcellus Dedrick
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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