02730    a2200373   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001500151072001500166072001500181072001400196072001300210072001400223072001300237072001300250072001200263072002100275072002100296072002100317072002100338072002100359100002100380245009900401250000600500260003200506300001000538520179300548999001502341113890945920250317100410.0250312042015GB                   eng    a9781138909458  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 51.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aRPC2thema7 aNHK2thema7 aRGC2thema7 aJHB2thema7 aTN2thema7 aRPC2bic7 aHBJK2bic7 aRGC2bic7 aJHB2bic7 aTN2bic7 aARC0080002bisac7 aARC0100002bisac7 aARC0130002bisac7 aSOC0260302bisac7 a307.760982bisac1 aClara Irazábal10aOrdinary Places/Extraordinary EventsbCitizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20150226  a254 p  bThis book reveals the recent urban history of nine major Latin American cities – Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotá, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires – through studies of their public spaces and the events that have taken place there. The case studies provide an unprecedented opportunity to look at cities with comparable cultural and political histories, and to investigate the use and meaning of urban space by ordinary people in extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, equally they can be said to be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. In Latin America, there have been the experiences of the Santiago of Pinochet, the Buenos Aires of Videla, the Asuncion of Strossner, or the Caracas of Pérez Jiménez, among others. Yet even here political demonstrations in public spaces played a critical role in the eventual revocation of those regimes, and/or in the subsequent re-establishment of democracy. For the two opposing political visions – democracy versus totalitarianism – public streets and spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the enactment and contestation of various stances on democracy and citizenship. Indeed, the public sphere, as the intangible realm for the expression, reproduction, and/or recreation of a society’s culture and polity, usually encompasses opposing political visions and nurtures acute social confrontations which are played out in tangible space. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities over time, the book sheds light on contemporary redefinitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas, and by extrapolation, the world.  c2196d2196