Politics of the Dunes
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Architectural History
Author_Maxwell Woods
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Colonialism
Decoloniality
Environmentalism
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Modern Architecture
Neoliberalism
Open City
Politics
Subaltern Studies
Totalitarianism
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- ISBN 9781789209013
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge architectural experimentation. Yet with a global reputation as an apolitical collective, little has been discussed about the Open City's relationship with Chilean history and politics. Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City's architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.
Maxwell Woods is a member of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Universidad Adolfo Ibanez in Vina del Mar, Chile. His work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Cultural Dynamics, Cultural Politics, and Literary Geographies.
