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In Enduring Innocence , Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictionsin difficult political situations around the world. These spacesfamiliar commercial formulas of retail, business, and tradeaspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, in reality these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence. Enduring Innocence collects six stories of spatial products and their political cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gur

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Author

Easterling, Keller, 1959-

Publisher

MIT Press; The MIT Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262550659

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Art, Arts