Varnishing Facades, Erasing Memory: Reading Urban Beautification with Critical Whiteness Studies

Varnishing Facades, Erasing Memory: Reading Urban Beautification with Critical Whiteness Studies

The paper addresses the contemporary features of aesthetic capitalism (Böhme, 2001; 2017) in the city, connecting beauty studies with established analyses of ‘territorial stigmatization’ (Wacquant, 2007) in the framework of critical whiteness studies. My argument is that beautification practices in...

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Main Author: Laura Raccanelli
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: University of Presov, Faculty of Arts 2023-12-01
Series:ESPES
Subjects:
urban beautification
aesthetic capitalism
territorial stigmatization
critical whiteness studies
street art
camouflage
Online Access:https://espes.ff.unipo.sk/index.php/ESPES/article/view/310

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