Scenes and Sensibilities

Authors

  • Will Straw

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.83

Keywords:

Cenas, Estudos Culturais, Cidade, Sociabilidade, Comunidades Urbanas

Abstract

In this article, the different senses the term “scene” acquires in many theoretical approaches that develop a cartography of the emerging sociabilities at the urban space are brought to discussion. Many efforts on refining the concept have been developed over the past decade, but they had found trouble dealing with its slipperiness and anti-essentializing character, which seems to expand or contract to convey several kinds of phenomena related to twentieth-century urban cultural communities. The article also draws the attention to the risk of exacerbated celebration of the so-called cultural effervescence of the scenes (usually attributed by those accounts) and discuss if the concept could isolate any political agency that may be related to urban cultural phenomena.

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Straw, W. (2006). Scenes and Sensibilities. E-Compós, 6. https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.83

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