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Marc Augé
Bio: Marc Augé is an academic researcher from École Normale Supérieure. The author has contributed to research in topics: Applied anthropology & Meaning (existential). The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 80 publications receiving 5967 citations.
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17 May 1995
TL;DR: Auge explores the distinction between "place", encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and "non-place", to which individuals are connected in a uniform, bureaucratic manner and where no organic social life is possible as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Most people spend an increasing amount of time in soulless, impersonal places: motorways, airports, in front of cash machines, TVs and computers. For the author, this is symptomatic of the experience of "supermodernity" or late-capitalist existence. The invasion of modern life by these "non-places" is central to this work. The book explores the distinction between "place", encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and "non-place", to which individuals are connected in a uniform, bureaucratic manner and where no organic social life is possible. Marc Auge is the author of "Pouvoirs de Vie, "Pouvoirs de Mort", "Genie du Paganisme", Un Ethnogue dans le Metro" and "Domaines et Chateaux".
2,763 citations
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Auge et al. as mentioned in this paper conceptualizar una antropologia de la sobremodernidad, que podria ser tambien una etnologia of la soledad de la condicion humana contemporanea.
Abstract: Los no lugares no existian en el pasado. Son espacios propiamente contemporaneos de confluencia anonimos, donde personas en transito deben instalarse durante algun tiempo de espera, sea a la salida del avion, del tren o del metro que ha de llegar. Apenas permiten un furtivo cruce de miradas entre personas que nunca mas se encontraran. Los no lugares convierten a los ciudadanos en meros elementos de conjuntos que se forman y deshacen al azar y son simbolicos de la condicion humana actual y mas aun del futuro. El usuario mantiene con estos no lugares una relacion contractual establecida por el billete de tren o de avion y no tiene en ellos mas personalidad que la documentada en su tarjeta de identidad. Atento al uso de las palabras, releyendo los lugares descritos por Chateaubriand, por Baudelaire y Benjamin, Marc Auge abre nuevas perspectivas para conceptualizar una antropologia de la sobremodernidad, que podria ser tambien una etnologia de la soledad de la condicion humana contemporanea
478 citations
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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
Abstract: What makes us modern? This is a classic question in philosophy as well as in political science. However it is often raised without including science and technology in its definition. The argument of this book is that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology. This division allows the formidable expansion of the Western empires. However it has become more and more difficult to maintain this distance between science and politics. Hence the postmodern predicament - the feeling that the modern stance is no longer acceptable but that there is no alternative. The solution, advances one of France's leading sociologists of science, is to realize that we have never been modern to begin with. The comparative anthropology this text provides reintroduces science to the fabric of daily life and aims to make us compatible both with our past and with other cultures wrongly called pre-modern.
8,858 citations
TL;DR: A review of several hundred empirical and theoretical papers and chapters reveals that despite mobility and globalization processes, place continues to be an object of strong attachments as discussed by the authors, and the main message of the three components of the tripartite model of place attachment (Scannell & Gifford, 2010a ), the Person component has attracted disproportionately more attention than the Place and Process components.
1,676 citations
TL;DR: This article argued that the defense of place by social movements might be constituted as a rallying point for both theory construction and political action, and argued that place-based struggles might be seen as multi-scale, network-oriented subaltern strategies of localization.
1,457 citations
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05 Oct 2012
TL;DR: Tweets and the Streets as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest, arguing that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality.
Abstract: Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the "indignados" protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around "occupied" places such as Cairo's Tahrir Square or New York's Zuccotti Park. An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.
911 citations
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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: This paper examined how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life, and found that national identity was inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music.
Abstract: The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high' and ‘low' culture.
870 citations