Retail Ruins

The Ghosts of Post-Industrial Spectacle
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2553-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

In the context of widespread precarity and ongoing crises, it is no surprise ruins have captured much attention in recent years. This book is about a new kind of space, one that is deeply troubling for consumer society: the retail ruin.

Jacob C. Miller bridges human geography, archaeology and critical urban studies to offer a starting point for conceptualizing retail ruins. Drawing on fieldnotes and photographs, Miller crafts a hauntological approach informed by the theories of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida to more recent thinking on assemblage, spectacle and the politics of urban space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Jacob C

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Einzel- und Großhandel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. What Are Retail Ruins?

2. Retail Ruins

3. Spectacle, Haunted

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob C. Miller is Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Northumbria University.