The Grands Magasins Dufayel, a huge department store built on the northern fringe of late nineteenth-century Paris, had an important cultural influence on the city's working class. In a neighborhood with few public spaces, it provided a consumer version of the public square. It encouraged workers to approach shopping as a social activity, just as the bourgeoisie did at the famous department stores in central Paris. Like the bourgeois stores, it helped transform consumption from a personal transaction between customer and merchant into an unmediated relationship between consumer and goods. Through advertising the store portrayed itself as a space where the working-class visitor could participate in new and exciting forms of entertainment and technology. Its unique instore cinema and exhibits of inventions like X-ray machines and the gramophone created a new kind of urban space that celebrated the close relationship between technology and consumer culture.
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
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- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–17
Danielle Brady
The struggle to save the Beeliar Wetlands, an urban remnant bushland in Perth, Western Australia, demonstrates elements of both urban social and urban environmental movements. At the end of 2016, 30 years of objection to the continuation of the Roe Highway development (Roe 8) culminated in months of intense protest leading up to a state election and a cessation of work in 2017. During the long-running campaign, protestors fought to preserve high-conservation-value bushland that was contained in the planned road reserve. At the heart of this dispute were competing spatial uses. This article will analyze four protest actions from the dispute using Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the production of space, and will demonstrate that the practices of protest gave those fighting to preserve Roe 8 the agency to reinscribe meaning to the natural uses of the Beeliar Wetlands over and against the uses privileged by the state.
“Welcome to Divinity College”
Subjectification in Pilgrimage to the Iran-Iraq War Battlefields in Contemporary Iran
Mahshid Zandi
assumed subjectivities of RN visitors to the Iran-Iraq War battlefields, this article shows why RN is envisioned by the Islamic Republic (IR) as a pedagogical means for subject-formation, and, moreover, how space and subjectivity are co-produced at the
(Un)seen Seas
Technological Mediation, Oceanic Imaginaries, and Future Depths
Stephanie Ratté
Remote ways of seeing and imagining the oceans—through technologies like geographic information systems, robotics, and artificial intelligence—are aiding an expansion of human influence over vast oceanic spaces. This article investigates how
‘It's Like Waking Up in the Library’
How an International Student Dorm in Copenhagen Became a Closed Circuit during COVID-19
Brian McGahey
how the dorm, previously considered a domestic space only, has now emerged as a closed circuit that combines in a single space living, work and leisure activities. Due to the lack of physical, mental and temporal demarcations between spaces of work and
“Space without People”
Austro-German Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, and Journalist Colin Ross Discovers Australia
Siegfried Mattl
tales of South Seas paradise, but Ross’s depictions undoubtedly re-oriented appraisals of this space through a strategy combining—or recalling—colonial desire and contemporary geopolitics in popular form. Ross was most invested in shifting the
Experiencing In-betweenness
Literary Spatialities
Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami
territories, a new type of city has emerged, mostly located at significant border crossings and with a rapid expiration date. Here, I refer to these as “the cities or spaces of in-between.” The overarching analysis which I introduce in the following sections
Making Space for Sanctions
The Economics of German Natural Gas Imports from Russia, 1982 and 2014 Compared
Stephen G. Gross
article answers this question by looking less at policy-making, and rather at the surrounding economic and energy context that gave Berlin the space to maneuver in 2014, such that it could apply sanctions with little pushback from its own economic elites
Along the Lines of the Occupation
Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem
Fabio Cristiano and Emilio Distretti
spaces, politics, and narratives are assembled and reproduced in rarified ways, often in contrast to the complexities on the ground. Particularly in the context of disputed areas, overlaying a virtual world over a disputed space remains a problematic
Sacred Spaces and Civic Action
Topographies of Pluralism in Russia
Melissa L. Caldwell
In 2012, five members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in downtown Moscow and occupied the main worship space. Clad in their signature neon-colored clothing and with their faces obscured by
