Space, Difference, Everyday Life

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. Lefebvre's massive body of work has generated two main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Life merges these two schools of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.

CONTENTS List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements 1 On the Production of Henri Lefebvre Stefan Kipfer, Kanishka Goonewardena, Christian Schmid and Richard Milgrom Part I: Dialectics of Space and Time 2 Towards a Three-Dimensional Dialectic: The Theory of the Production of Space Christian Schmid 3 Space and Representation: Reading the Urban Revolution Walter Prigge 4 Space as Concrete Abstraction: Hegel, Marx, and Modern Urbanism in Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek 5 Mondialisation before Globalization: Lefebvre and Axelos Stuart Elden 6 Lefebvre without Heidegger: Left Heideggerianism as contradictio in adiecto Geoffrey Waite Part II: Rhythms of Urbanization and Everyday Life 7 Marxism and Everyday Life: On Lefebvre, Debord and Some Others Kanishka Goonewardena 8 In Search of the Possible: Henri Lefebvre and Everyday Life Klaus Ronneberger 9 Rhythms, Streets, Cities Kurt Meyer 10 Lessons in Surrealism: Relationality, Event, Encounter Sara Nadal-Melsió 11 A Faustian Fusion: Lefebvre and Debord Andy Merrifield Part III: Difference, Hegemony and The Right to the City 12 Hegemony, Everyday Life and Difference: How Lefebvre Urbanized Gramsci Stefan Kipfer 13 Totality, Hegemony, Difference: Henri Lefebvre and Raymond Williams Andrew Shmuely 14 Henri Lefebvre's Critique of State Productivism Neil Brenner 15 Right to the City: Politics of Citizenship Liette Gilbert and Mustafa Dikeç 16 Lucien Kroll: Design, Difference, Everyday Life Richard Milgrom 17 Globalizing Lefebvre? Stefan Kipfer, Christian Schmid, Kanishka Goonewardena and Richard Milgrom