Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre

Theory, Practices and (Re)Readings

Jenny Bauer, Robert Fischer

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783110491890
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The articles take a decidedly interdisciplinary look at the opus of the French philosopher, sociologist and pioneer of spatial analysis Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991). His works are reflected upon from theoretical and practical perspectives by authors from various fields (literature, history, philosophy, sociology, ethnology) closely examining text references from Lefebvre.

About the Authors

Biographical Information

Lívia Alcântara (M.A. Sociology, Rio de Janeiro) is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos of Universidade do Estado Rio de Janeiro. After completing her master’s degree in Theories of Social Movements from a communication perspective, she joined the doctorate in the same university. Her PhD project examines the international solidarity of activism of diasporic Mexican communities in Barcelona, funded CNPq. She won a PhD scholarship from Faperj to study a year in Spain (Universitat de Lleida) and develop this research. Lívia is also a member of the research project “Transformations of Activism in Brazil: June 2013 in a Comparative Perspective”, funded by Capes, in which she works about media activists under the experiences of the Jornadas de Junho de 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. Recent publications are “Cyberactivism and the Communicative Dimension of Social Movements: repertoires, Organization and Diffusion” Política & Sociedade 15 (2016): 315–338.

Jenny Bauer (M.A. Göttingen, PhD Kassel) is an academic assistant on gender equality at the DFG Research Training Group “Interdisciplinary Privacy Research” at Passau University. After studying Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Literature and Gender Studies in Göttingen, she enrolled in the DFG Research Training Group “Dynamics of Space and Gender” (Kassel University). In 2014, she received her PhD and afterwards worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group “Topology of Technology” (TU Darmstadt). In 2014, she organized, together with Robert Fischer, Sebastian Dorsch and Susanne Rau, the interdisciplinary workshop “Lefebvre lesen” at Erfurt University. In 2015, the follow-up workshop “Raum anders denken” took place at TU Darmstadt. She is member of the Erfurt SpaceTime Research Group. Recent publications are “How to Write an Author. Biografische Spurensuche zu Toni Schwabe (1877–1951)” Jahrbuch Sexualitäten (2018): 31–56, “Verfolgt, verteidigt, vermessen. Genderperspektiven auf Machtverhältnisse im digitalen Kontext” Magazin des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Privatheit und Digitalisierung“ 10 (2018): 5–9. Online: www.privatheit.uni-passau.de/magazin-des-graduiertenkollegs/, and the co-edition of the miscellany Heimat-Räume. Komparatistische Perspektiven auf Herkunftsnarrative (together with Claudia Gremler and Niels Penke). Essen: Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag, 2014.

Anne Brüske (M.A. Heidelberg, PhD Heidelberg) directed the Junior Research Group “From the Caribbean to North America and Back. Processes of Transculturation in Literature, Popular Culture, and New Media” at the Heidelberg University from 2010 to 2017. After studying Romance Literature and Sociology in Heidelberg and Montpellier, she was an associated pre-doctoral researcher in the PhD program “Gender in Motion” at the University of Basel and defended her doctoral thesis “Das weibliche Subjekt in der Krise. Anthropologische Semantik in Laclos’ Liaisons dangereuses” in Heidelberg in 2008. Besides her interest in French Enlightenment fiction, culture and their role in social evolution, she has widely published in the field of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies. In 2015, she organized with Anja Bandau (Leibniz University Hannover) and Natascha Ueckmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) the international and interdisciplinary conference “Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean” which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Currently, she is working on her habilitation project, a book-length study on the production of fictional space in Hispano-Caribbean and Haitian-American diaspora fiction. This monograph combines Henri Lefebvres’ spatial framework, intersectional and decolonial approaches, and literary theory in order to analyze processes of de- and reterritorialization in contemporary postcolonial fiction. Recent publications include: Bandau, Anja, Anne Brüske and Natascha Ueckmann (eds.): Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean. Relations et Déconnexions – Relaciones y Desconexiones – Relations and Disconnections. Heidelberg: heiUP, 2018 [forthcoming]; “Re/escrituras de una Historia negra femenina desde Puerto Rico. las Necras de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro y Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos Febres en la tradición del neo-slave narrative” In: Pluraler Humanismus? Négritude und Negrismo weiter gedacht, Gisela Febel and Natascha Ueckmann (eds.), 207–232. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018.

Sebastian Dorsch (B.A. Passau/Erfurt, M.A. Erfurt/Mexico-City, PhD Erfurt) is Research Assistant and Coordinator of the project “What is Western about the ‘West’?” (Erfurt University) as well as Research Assistant at Gotha Research Centre. After having been awarded his M.A. from Erfurt University and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), he worked six years at the chair for Latin and Southwestern European History (Erfurt). In 2008 he defended his PhD thesis on the struggles for constitutional cultures in Michoacán (Mexico) before, during and after the political independence of Mexico in 1821. In 2010 the thesis was published as Verfassungskultur in Michoacán (Mexiko): Ringen um Ordnung und Souveränität im Zeitalter der Atlantischen Revolutionen (Lateinamerikanische Forschungen 37). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2010. After his PhD, he received a grant for the project ‘Cultural TimeSpaces of an Atlantic Metropolis. São Paulo, 1867–1930’ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). While working on this project he initiated the interdisciplinary Erfurt SpaceTime Research Group (www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/raumzeit-forschung/) in cooperation with Susanne Rau (Erfurt). After the organisation of several workshops, he published a special issue titled Space/Time Practices in the journal Historical Social Research 3 (2013). In 2015 the Group began publishing a series SpatioTemporality, in which this book appears. Dorsch’s current research is concerned with the history of cartographical knowledge on the Amazon around 1900. He has published on this topic the essay ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introducing Lefebvre
• I. Theorizing Lefebvre
• II. Applying Lefebvre: Urban Space
• III. Applying Lefebvre: Literary Space
• About the authors