On the Plaza : : The Politics of Public Space and Culture / / Setha M. Low.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Low, Setha M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin American life has its place and time in the public plaza. In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary study, Setha M. Low explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, show...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part one: Introduction
• Chapter 1: Notes from the field. A personal account
• Chapter 2: Public Space and Culture. The case of Latin American plaza
• Part two: Histories
• Chapter 3: The history of plaza in San José, Costa Rica. The political symbolism of public space
• Chapter 4: The European history of the plaza. Power relations and Architectural Interpretation
• Chapter 5: The indigenous history of the plaza. The contested terrain of architectural representations
• Part three: Ethnographies
• Chapter 6: Spatializing culture. The social production and social construction of public space
• Chapter 7: Constructing difference. The social and spatial boundaries of everyday life
• Chapter 8: Public space and protest. The plaza as art and commodity
• Part four: Conversations
• Chapter 9: The park and the plaza in Costa Rican literature. Imagine places
• Chapter 10: Conversations on the plaza. Remembered places
• Chapter 11: Public space, politics and democracy
• Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and their terms
• Bibliography
• Index