Geographies of Desire: Postsocial Urban Space and Historical Revision in the Films of Martin Scorsese

Haenni, Sabine

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“…While geographies of desire have tended to focus on sexualities and identities (e.g. Bell and Valentine, 1995;Haenni, 2010), this article takes the intersection of desire and political action as its focus and argues for a relational analysis of these forces within the more-than-real.…”

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The contingency of change in the Anthropocene: More-than-real renegotiation of power relations in climate change institutional transformation in Australia

McLean

2015

Environ Plan D

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The Anthropocene, as a notion and a discursive field, is generating productive academic and broader debate. In this article, I analyse the creation of a crowdfunded climate change institution in Australia-the Climate Council-as an instance of everyday activism in the Anthropocene, and partly a function of the more-than-real. The more-than-real refers to the digital space that bore the Climate Council's creation, and situates this spontaneous climate change activism. The broader context of this transformation included an abnormally hot spring season, a turn to conservative federal government, and already-active social media spaces. As an exploratory case study that introduces an example of activism steeped in desire, this research situates mainstream climate change activism squarely within the Anthropocene notion, where a large group of disaffected individuals transformed an organisation that they perceived as valuable. This type of climate change activism can be read as a productive possibility of the Anthropocene, and unsettles narratives of inevitable environmental devastation, while simultaneously raising questions of whether the Anthropocene concept can or should include digital spaces. The discourses working in, through and around the Climate Council transformation in the more-than-real are read as a disruption of the Anthropocene that may generate productive possibilities.

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The contingency of change in the Anthropocene: More-than-real renegotiation of power relations in climate change institutional transformation in Australia

McLean

2015

Environ Plan D

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“…This interdisciplinary literature (Andersson ; Clutter ; Corkin ; Greenberg ; Haenni ; Shearer , ; Webb ; Wojcik ) has combined visual and narrative methods from film studies with approaches from urban and economic geography on New York's restructuring (Harvey ; Smith ) and the parallel restructuring of the US film industry (Christopherson and Storper ; Scott ).…”

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Landscape and Gentrification: The Picturesque and Pastoral in 1980s New York Cinema

Andersson

2016

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In this article I discuss 1980s New York cinema through the conceptual lens of landscape, drawing in particular on the interconnected but separate traditions of the pastoral and the picturesque. While the former mode of representing landscape is idealizing (the shepherd/nymph-motif), the latter with its origins in the period of the enclosures of the English countryside tends to aestheticize poverty and dispossession. This distinction can productively be deployed in relation to tensions between glamorization and exploitation in 1980s New York cinema, which often dealt with the themes of rent, eviction, and unemployment in postindustrial settings. Focusing in particular on Downtown 81 (Edo Bertoglio, 1981/2000 and Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985), I argue that the current nostalgia for a pre-gentrified and less regulated New York in popular culture is dependent on these idealizing and aestheticizing tendencies insofar that they conceal or prettify some of the darker aspects of the period.

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Scorsese's Landscape of Mortality

Pomerance¹

2014

A Companion to Martin Scorsese

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Geographies of Desire: Postsocial Urban Space and Historical Revision in the Films of Martin Scorsese

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

The contingency of change in the Anthropocene: More-than-real renegotiation of power relations in climate change institutional transformation in Australia

The contingency of change in the Anthropocene: More-than-real renegotiation of power relations in climate change institutional transformation in Australia

Landscape and Gentrification: The Picturesque and Pastoral in 1980s New York Cinema

Scorsese's Landscape of Mortality

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