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Space-Body-Ritual
Performativity in the City
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2010
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Set against the contemporary thinking of the city as a spectacle, SpaceDBodyDRitual: Performativity in the City establishes everyday life in the city as a ground for authentic experience. Reena Tiwari emphasizes the city as a space of lived experience-an intricately layered space giving people a poetic experience, responding to their memories and desires. She also explores the conflict between two ideas: the idea of thee 'city as text' to be read and understood from a distance, and the 'city as body,' where the body, after writing the text through its performance, achieves the capacity to read and understand it. SpaceDBodyDRitual demonstrates that the abstract 'seeing' embedded in the 'city as a text' is underwritten by the idea of power operating at deeper levels in the city. This hidden power is the power of the user's body in space. Furthermore, Tiwari proposes that an understanding of the 'city as body' through lived experience-through rhythmanalysis, where rhythms of everyday and extra everyday practices are understood-leads to the design of an environment that is evocative and is able to generate a bodily response from the user. To understand the rhythms, it becomes essential to know the way users inhabit, understand and map or present the city spaces by their bodies. SpaceDBodyDRitual will compel its readership to think of the parameters of spatial design as cultural generator.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2857-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4763-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
158
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. I Am a Rhythmanalyst No access
Chapter 02. Contextualizing Space–Body–Ritual No access
Chapter 03. Contextualizing City and the Body No access
Chapter 04. Varanasi—A View from Afar No access
Chapter 05. Varanasi as a Spectacle No access
Chapter 06. Body Performance and the Construction of Lived Space in Varanasi No access
Chapter 07. Memory and the Lived Experience No access
Chapter 08. Spatializing Memories through Performance in Varanasi No access
Chapter 09.Mapping a City No access
Chapter 10. Constructing Ritualized Maps of Varanasi No access
Conclusion: Performativity and Lived Space No access Pages 137 - 144
