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Social change --- Les Salles-sur-Verdon --- Relocation (Housing) --- Regional planning --- Eminent domain --- Aménagement du territoire --- Salles-en-Provence, France --- Social policy --- New Towns --- Displacement (Psychology) --- Aménagement rural --- Barrage --- Sociologie rurale --- Village --- Les Salles-sur-Verdon (France) --- Var --- Social conditions --- Commune --- Case studies. --- Aménagement du territoire --- New communities --- Satellite cities --- Cities and towns --- Displacement behavior in humans --- Defense mechanisms (Psychology) --- Human behavior --- Psychology, Pathological --- Sublimation (Psychology) --- Case studies --- Les Salles (France) --- Sales (Var, France) --- Salles-sur-Verdon (France) --- Salles-en-Provence (France) --- Social conditions. --- New Towns - France - Les Salles-sur-Verdon - Case studies --- Displacement (Psychology) - Case studies --- Les Salles-sur-Verdon (France) - Social conditions
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Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of “domicide” or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.
Zombies --- Alienation (Social psychology) --- Displacement (Psychology) --- Popular culture --- Zombies in popular culture. --- Zombies in motion pictures. --- Zombies in literature. --- Society in literature. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Motion pictures --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Zombis --- Dead --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Displacement behavior in humans --- Defense mechanisms (Psychology) --- Human behavior --- Psychology, Pathological --- Sublimation (Psychology) --- Alienation, Social --- Disaffection (Social psychology) --- Estrangement (Social psychology) --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Social alienation --- Social psychology --- Social isolation --- History --- Western culture --- popular culture --- crisis of meaning --- cultural studies --- apocalypse --- alienation --- media studies
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This title attempts to theorise the contemporary urban condition by arguing that displacement forms the central logic of urban exploitation. In order to theorise urban exploitation it is important to understand who is having to move and where, who is being resettled and how, and how is this process of displacing and resettling oppressive.
Forced migration --- Urbanization --- Economic development projects --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Compulsory resettlement --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Involuntary resettlement --- Migration, Forced --- Purification, Ethnic --- Relocation, Forced --- Resettlement, Involuntary --- Migration, Internal --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Social aspects. --- Urban poor --- Poor --- Working poor --- Marxian economics --- Displacement (Psychology) --- Displacement behavior in humans --- Defense mechanisms (Psychology) --- Human behavior --- Psychology, Pathological --- Sublimation (Psychology) --- Working class --- Marxist economics --- Communism --- Schools of economics --- Socialism --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- City planning --- Urban renewal --- Employment --- Economic conditions
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