Date Thesis Awarded
5-2009
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
Anthropology
Advisor
Brad Weiss
Committee Members
Charles McGovern
Grey Gundaker
Abstract
New Town challenges contemporary approaches to the study of space as cultural practice. This paper aims to elucidate New Town as an intersubjectively understood social space by blending Henri Lefebvre's theory of space as performative and relational with Bruno Latour's conception of the social as a network of ontologically negotiable 'actors.' I suggest that the spatial practice of New Town situates subjects before a sort of lived menu, a leveled array of juxtaposed, consumptive possibilities.
Recommended Citation
Gottschling, Paul, "Live. Work. Emplace.: An Ethnography of New Town as Spatial Performance" (2009). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 340.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/340
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.