Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre

This book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - 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-Melsiò 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