Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introducing Lefebvre 1
5. I. Theorizing Lefebvre
6. Poetik des Raums – Bachelard und Lefebvre 17
7. Die Illusion des Fortschritts: Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Walter Benjamin und Henri Lefebvre 36
8. Henri Lefebvre and the Critical Theory of Society 55
9. II. Applying Lefebvre: Urban Space
10. Rereading Henri Lefebvre’s La production de l’espace: Appropriation, Nature, and Time-Space in São Paulo Spatial History at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century 77
11. On Regressive-Progressive Rhythmanalysis 95
12. (Urban) Space, Media and Protests: Digitalizing the Right to the City? 118
13. III. Applying Lefebvre: Literary Space
14. Walking Through Constructions, Playing in the Mud: Practices of the City in Prefabricated Housing Settlements of the GDR 147
15. Spatial Theory, Post/Colonial Perspectives, and Fiction: Reading Hispano-Caribbean Diaspora Literature in the US with Henri Lefebvre 178
16. Thirdings, Representations, Reflections: How to Grasp the Spatial Triad 207
17. About the Authors
18. Biographical Information 227
19. Contributors Writing about Lefebvre 231
20. Bibliographies on Lefebvre 233