Jeremy Tambling and Louis Lo
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099371
- eISBN:
- 9789882207660
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099371.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This is a guide-book that brings forth the art and architecture of Macao and the baroque treasures that make the territory of Macao so attractive. The book aims to help with an understanding of the ...
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This is a guide-book that brings forth the art and architecture of Macao and the baroque treasures that make the territory of Macao so attractive. The book aims to help with an understanding of the complex history and layout of the city as a Portuguese ex-colony founded in the sixteenth century, as a postcolonial city, and as a modern Chinese city. As the chapters consider the special nature of Macao's baroque, they discuss whether its Chinese architecture—its temples, gardens and houses—is also baroque; and what is the importance of the new casino architecture, much of which imitates “the baroque” in its postmodern character. They weave discussion of Camões' epic poem, The Lusiads, about Portuguese imperialism, and Chinnery's paintings into the exploration of Macao's present buildings. To create this new way of looking at Macao, the chapters draw on critical, cultural, and “postmodern” theory inspired by the baroque, discussing in particular what the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze can bring to our understanding of Macao and the baroque. The book gives light to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and theory about cities, and helps with the understanding of this through the detailed reading it gives of the streets of Macao. It examines Macao's heritage, and asks as much about the cultural memories stored up in the city as it does about its new and exciting architecture.Less
This is a guide-book that brings forth the art and architecture of Macao and the baroque treasures that make the territory of Macao so attractive. The book aims to help with an understanding of the complex history and layout of the city as a Portuguese ex-colony founded in the sixteenth century, as a postcolonial city, and as a modern Chinese city. As the chapters consider the special nature of Macao's baroque, they discuss whether its Chinese architecture—its temples, gardens and houses—is also baroque; and what is the importance of the new casino architecture, much of which imitates “the baroque” in its postmodern character. They weave discussion of Camões' epic poem, The Lusiads, about Portuguese imperialism, and Chinnery's paintings into the exploration of Macao's present buildings. To create this new way of looking at Macao, the chapters draw on critical, cultural, and “postmodern” theory inspired by the baroque, discussing in particular what the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze can bring to our understanding of Macao and the baroque. The book gives light to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and theory about cities, and helps with the understanding of this through the detailed reading it gives of the streets of Macao. It examines Macao's heritage, and asks as much about the cultural memories stored up in the city as it does about its new and exciting architecture.
Naomi Roux
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526140289
- eISBN:
- 9781526161079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526140296.00007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
The introduction provides a theoretical framework for the book’s examination of the intersection between public memory, public space and urban transformation. In South Africa, as elsewhere, the ...
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The introduction provides a theoretical framework for the book’s examination of the intersection between public memory, public space and urban transformation. In South Africa, as elsewhere, the politics of memory are inherently spatialised, both through physical traces in landscapes and through the structure and layout of urban and public spaces. The introductory chapter makes a case for the inherent intertwining of twenty-first-century spatial transformation in cities, and the transformation (and contestation) of the politics of public memory. Through this discussion, the introduction outlines the ways in which the city can be read as a form of archive, and how this reading is helpful for understanding public memory’s appearances and disappearances in urban public space. This chapter also makes the case for the study of these questions in the context of this particular post-apartheid city in the twenty-first century, and provides the rationale for Nelson Mandela Bay as an appropriate site through which to examine these questions and their broader continental and global relevance. It positions the city’s recent history in the context of South African and global politics, and argues for the value of examining and understanding this period through the lens of public memory and urban transformation.Less
The introduction provides a theoretical framework for the book’s examination of the intersection between public memory, public space and urban transformation. In South Africa, as elsewhere, the politics of memory are inherently spatialised, both through physical traces in landscapes and through the structure and layout of urban and public spaces. The introductory chapter makes a case for the inherent intertwining of twenty-first-century spatial transformation in cities, and the transformation (and contestation) of the politics of public memory. Through this discussion, the introduction outlines the ways in which the city can be read as a form of archive, and how this reading is helpful for understanding public memory’s appearances and disappearances in urban public space. This chapter also makes the case for the study of these questions in the context of this particular post-apartheid city in the twenty-first century, and provides the rationale for Nelson Mandela Bay as an appropriate site through which to examine these questions and their broader continental and global relevance. It positions the city’s recent history in the context of South African and global politics, and argues for the value of examining and understanding this period through the lens of public memory and urban transformation.
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
The Introduction theorizes the “scene” as a world-in-the-making—an imagineered space with shifting borders that are shaped by the broader politics of class and mobility that operate in the third ...
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The Introduction theorizes the “scene” as a world-in-the-making—an imagineered space with shifting borders that are shaped by the broader politics of class and mobility that operate in the third world city. The Introduction theorizes the scene in relation to notions of queer complicity, urban theory, and experimental ethnographyLess
The Introduction theorizes the “scene” as a world-in-the-making—an imagineered space with shifting borders that are shaped by the broader politics of class and mobility that operate in the third world city. The Introduction theorizes the scene in relation to notions of queer complicity, urban theory, and experimental ethnography
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Under Bright Lights vividly describes the emergence in twenty-first century Manila of a “bright lights” scene: a world composed of dance clubs, upmarket bars, party circuits, and other commercial ...
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Under Bright Lights vividly describes the emergence in twenty-first century Manila of a “bright lights” scene: a world composed of dance clubs, upmarket bars, party circuits, and other commercial sites that evoke images of a gay globe, but which remain bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay. Benedicto argues that queer world-making practices sustain elite desires for global modernity and the class, gender, and racial orders that structure urban life in the post-colony. Further, Benedicto analyzes how the fantasy of global gay modernity is imperiled during touristic journeys to global cities, when privileged gay men from Manila encounter Filipino labor migrants in sites of transit and come face-to-face with the exclusionary racial orders that operate in gay spaces overseas. By implicating queer practices of mobility in local and transnational cultures of domination, Bright Lights, Gay Globality challenges popular interpretations of the “third world” queer as a necessarily radical figure. It puts into question the theories of alternative modernity that have dominated research on postcolonial cities, interrogates the idealization of movement in the study of non-normative sexualities, and complicates Euro-American efforts to unpack queer complicities with neoliberal culture.Less
Under Bright Lights vividly describes the emergence in twenty-first century Manila of a “bright lights” scene: a world composed of dance clubs, upmarket bars, party circuits, and other commercial sites that evoke images of a gay globe, but which remain bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay. Benedicto argues that queer world-making practices sustain elite desires for global modernity and the class, gender, and racial orders that structure urban life in the post-colony. Further, Benedicto analyzes how the fantasy of global gay modernity is imperiled during touristic journeys to global cities, when privileged gay men from Manila encounter Filipino labor migrants in sites of transit and come face-to-face with the exclusionary racial orders that operate in gay spaces overseas. By implicating queer practices of mobility in local and transnational cultures of domination, Bright Lights, Gay Globality challenges popular interpretations of the “third world” queer as a necessarily radical figure. It puts into question the theories of alternative modernity that have dominated research on postcolonial cities, interrogates the idealization of movement in the study of non-normative sexualities, and complicates Euro-American efforts to unpack queer complicities with neoliberal culture.
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chapter 2 demonstrates how gay spaces operate as sites of imagined mobility. It examines three cases where the “far” is materialized in the “near”: a commercial district called the “Global City,” a ...
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Chapter 2 demonstrates how gay spaces operate as sites of imagined mobility. It examines three cases where the “far” is materialized in the “near”: a commercial district called the “Global City,” a party patterned after the television program Queer as Folk, and a “lower class” gay club named after the paradisiacal island “Palawan.”Less
Chapter 2 demonstrates how gay spaces operate as sites of imagined mobility. It examines three cases where the “far” is materialized in the “near”: a commercial district called the “Global City,” a party patterned after the television program Queer as Folk, and a “lower class” gay club named after the paradisiacal island “Palawan.”
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chapter 4 analyzes accounts of gay travel, focusing on how transnationally mobile gay men from Manila disavow sameness with Filipino labor migrants. The chapter examines anxieties about national ...
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Chapter 4 analyzes accounts of gay travel, focusing on how transnationally mobile gay men from Manila disavow sameness with Filipino labor migrants. The chapter examines anxieties about national belonging through a reading of Manila’s international airport as a reminder of the city’s failed dreams of becoming global.Less
Chapter 4 analyzes accounts of gay travel, focusing on how transnationally mobile gay men from Manila disavow sameness with Filipino labor migrants. The chapter examines anxieties about national belonging through a reading of Manila’s international airport as a reminder of the city’s failed dreams of becoming global.
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chapter 5 examines how experiences of race-based exclusion from gay spaces overseas disappear from the stories of gay travel that circulate in Manila. It suggests that the silence surrounding such ...
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Chapter 5 examines how experiences of race-based exclusion from gay spaces overseas disappear from the stories of gay travel that circulate in Manila. It suggests that the silence surrounding such experiences is an effect of the muting force of shame and the absence of a popular discourse on race in Manila.Less
Chapter 5 examines how experiences of race-based exclusion from gay spaces overseas disappear from the stories of gay travel that circulate in Manila. It suggests that the silence surrounding such experiences is an effect of the muting force of shame and the absence of a popular discourse on race in Manila.
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chapter 1 examines how automobility allows the men who populate the scene to experience the gay cityscape as a constellational space made up of pockets of privilege as well as othered spaces such as ...
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Chapter 1 examines how automobility allows the men who populate the scene to experience the gay cityscape as a constellational space made up of pockets of privilege as well as othered spaces such as strip bars which are approached in the manner of touristic journeys.Less
Chapter 1 examines how automobility allows the men who populate the scene to experience the gay cityscape as a constellational space made up of pockets of privilege as well as othered spaces such as strip bars which are approached in the manner of touristic journeys.
Bobby Benedicto
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691074
- eISBN:
- 9781452949437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691074.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chapter 3 examines discursive attempts to locate Manila within “gay globality,” an imagined planetary network comprised of urban sites associated with “gay modernity.” The Chapter analyzes the ...
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Chapter 3 examines discursive attempts to locate Manila within “gay globality,” an imagined planetary network comprised of urban sites associated with “gay modernity.” The Chapter analyzes the classed desire to imagine the bakla as anachronistic and how this imagination allows the scene to secure a position of newness.Less
Chapter 3 examines discursive attempts to locate Manila within “gay globality,” an imagined planetary network comprised of urban sites associated with “gay modernity.” The Chapter analyzes the classed desire to imagine the bakla as anachronistic and how this imagination allows the scene to secure a position of newness.
