Paris-Amsterdam underground : : essays on cultural resistance, subversion, and diversion / / edited by Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey.

The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the "underground" as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam i...

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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cities and cultures
Cities and cultures.
Physical Description:1 online resource (198 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword / Pinder, David
  • 1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground / Lindner, Christoph / Hussey, Andrew
  • Part 1: Projections
  • 2. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting / Berrebi, Sophie
  • 3. Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris / Hussey, Andrew
  • 4. Amsterdam's Sexual Underground in the 1960's / Hekma, Gert
  • Part 2: Mobility
  • 5. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jérusalem and Slow Training in Culture / Dasgupta, Sudeep
  • 6. Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines / Verstraete, Ginette
  • 7. Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond / Hibbard, Allen
  • Part 3: Visibility
  • 8. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City / Birdsall, Carolyn
  • 9. Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City / Goggin, Joyce
  • 10. Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands / Milne, Anna-Louise
  • 11. Archaeology of the Parisian Underground / Sawyer, Stephen W.
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Index