Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. Book 26)

Light in dark times / Paul Rabinow -- Making sense of our contemporary moment of danger / Heather Merrill and Lisa M. Hoffman -- Angelus novus (from back) / Trevor Paglen -- It's time : the cultural politics of memory in the current moment of danger / Katharyne Mitchell -- Skinning the skinning / Gunnar Olsson -- From Allan's notes on Benjamin / Trevor Paglen -- Exposing the nation : entanglements of race, sexuality, and gender in post-Apartheid nationalisms / Gillian Hart -- In other wor(l)ds : situated intersectionality in Italy / Heather Merrill -- Monumental memory, moral superiority, and contemporary disconnects : racisms and noncitizens in Europe, then and now / Damani J. Partridge -- From Allan's notes on Benjamin / Trevor Paglen -- The city and economic geography : then and now / Richard Walker -- Situated spectacle : cross-sectional soil hermeneutics of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo / Shiloh Krupar -- Angelus novus / Trevor Paglen -- Insurgent spaces : power, place, and spectacle in Nigeria / Michael J. Watts -- Even in plurinational Bolivia : indigeneity, development, and racism since Morales / Nancy Postero -- Moving targets and violent geographies / Derek Gregory -- A Bronx chronicle / Cindi Katz.;"On July 22, 2011 a 32 year old far right activist clothed as a police officer opened fire on a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya Island in Norway, slaughtering 69 people and maiming many more. The vast majority of the victims were between 14 and 19 years of age. He also placed bombs in a government building in Oslo, killing 8 and wounding others. In a 1,500 page manifesto in English posted on the internet hours before the massacres in which he referred to himself as a "Marxist hunter," he declared "preemptive war," targeting "Cultural Marxists" who propagate a "multiculturalist," ideology to which he attributed the decay of Western European and American "civilization and culture" and the promotion of a pro-Islamic "Eurabia." What is compelling about this story is less what the content of the killer's easily downloadable manuscript reveals about far right thinking, than how the significance of the event was concealed and silenced as it was interpreted for the public by journalists and political figures. By characterizing Breivik as an evil 'aberration' and abstracting his acts from the social and political context in which they took place, persuasive political arbiters and media reproduced what Allan Pred referred to as "situated ignorance," keeping people from attaining a more accurate knowledge and understanding of the events"-- Indigenous Peoples Constitute A Large And Distinct Portion Of Latin America's Population. They Are More Likely To Be Poor Than Any Other Group. This Book Documents Their Socioeconomic Situation, And Trends Over The Last Decade, And Shows That While Progress Has Been Achieved In Some Social Indicators, Indigenous Peoples Continue To Be Poor. The Book Uses As A Baseline Information Collected At The Start Of The International Decade Of The World's Indigenous Peoples, And Updates The Findings With New Information, Techniques And Analyses. The Book Assesses Changes In Poverty Rates, Human Development Indicators And Examines The Impact Of Education, Health And Social Programmes On Indigenous Peoples' Wellbeing. Set Within The Context Of Ongoing Political Changes, This Volume Reviews The Literature Of Indigenous Peoples And Provides A Statistical Overview Of Indigenous Populations In Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico And Peru, Examining Changes In Poverty Rates, Education Levels, Income Determinants, Labour Force Participation And Other Social Indicators. The Results Show That, While Improvements Have Been Achieved In Some Social Indicators, Little Progress Has Been Made With Respect To Poverty.--jacket. Introduction : The Indigenous Peoples' Decade In Latin America / Gillette Hall, Heather Marie Layton And Joseph Shapiro -- Estimating The Number Of Indigenous Peoples In Latin America / Heather Marie Layton And Harry Anthony Patrinos -- Bolivia / Wilson Jiménez Pozo, Fernando Landa Casazola And Ernesto Yañez Aguilar -- Ecuador / Carlos Larrea And Fernando Montenegro Torres -- Guatemala / Joseph Shapiro -- Mexico / Alejandro Ramirez -- Peru / Carolina Trivelli -- Key Messages And And Agenda For Action / Gillette Hall And Harry Anthony Patrinos. Edited By Gillette Hall And Harry Anthony Patrinos. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 258-274) And Index.

These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "situated ignorance": the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin's idea of "moments of danger."

The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activist Anders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of the resurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed.

The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting—for example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa—this volume peels back layers of "situated practices and their associated meaning and power relations." Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced.

These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "situated ignorance" the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin's idea of "moments of danger." The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activist Anders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of the resurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed. The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting--for example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa--this volume peels back layers of "situated practices and their associated meaning and power relations." Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced. "On July 22, 2011 a 32 year old far right activist clothed as a police officer opened fire on a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya Island in Norway, slaughtering 69 people and maiming many more. The vast majority of the victims were between 14 and 19 years of age. He also placed bombs in a government building in Oslo, killing 8 and wounding others. In a 1,500 page manifesto in English posted on the internet hours before the massacres in which he referred to himself as a "Marxist hunter," he declared "preemptive war," targeting "Cultural Marxists" who propagate a "multiculturalist," ideology to which he attributed the decay of Western European and American "civilization and culture" and the promotion of a pro-Islamic "Eurabia." What is compelling about this story is less what the content of the killer's easily downloadable manuscript reveals about far right thinking, than how the significance of the event was concealed and silenced as it was interpreted for the public by journalists and political figures. By characterizing Breivik as an evil 'aberration' and abstracting his acts from the social and political context in which they took place, persuasive political arbiters and media reproduced what Allan Pred referred to as "situated ignorance," keeping people from attaining a more accurate knowledge and understanding of the events"-- Provided by publisher Indigenous people constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely than other groups of a country's population to be poor. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress has been achieved in some social indicators, indigenous people continue to be poor. The book uses as a baseline information collected ten years ago - at the start of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People - and updates the findings with new information, and new techniques and analyses. The book assesses changes in poverty rates, human development indicators, and examines the impact of education, health and social programs on indigenous people's well-being. Set within the context of on-going political changes, this volume reviews the literature of indigenous people and provides a statistical overview of indigenous populations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, examining changes in poverty rates, education levels, income determinants, labour force participation and other social indicators. The results show that while improvements have been achieved in some social indicators, little progress has been made with respect to poverty Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in socio-economic conditions among the region's indigenous people, tracking progress in these indicators during the first international decade of indigenous peoples (1994-2004). Set within the context of existing literature and political changes over the course of the decade, this volume provides a rigorous statistical analysis of indigenous populations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, examining their poverty rates, education levels, income determinants, labour force participation and other social indicators. The results show that while improvements have been achieved in some social indicators, little progress has been made with respect to poverty.