UNITED
STATES: NORTHEAST
New York Center for Place, Culture
and Politics (CUNY Graduate Center)
| Name and
Address |
Center
for Place, Culture and Politics
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fith Avenue
New York, NY 10016
|
| Telephone |
212 817 1880 (telephone)
212 817 1644 (fax) |
| Email and
Web |
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp
pcp@gc.cuny.edu
mschauer@gc.cuny.edu |
| External
Fellowships? |
No |
|
Director |
Neil Smith |
|
Associate Director |
Omar Dahbour |
|
Assistant to Director |
Megan Schauer |
Mission
Statement
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics is an interdisciplinary
center providing an exciting intellectual forum for the discussion
of a wide range of vital contemporary issues. The center's name and
focus express the fact that at the beginning of the twenty-first century,
questions of space and place have come to play a crucial role in the
public culture. As art historian John Berger noted in the 1970's,
"it is space not time that hides the consequences" of social
action from us. The cultural turn in intellectual circles in recent
decades has therefore been fueled by a widespread rewriting of culture
in a highly evocative spatial language. At the same time, many of
the most pressing political issues today - globalization and homelessness,
environmental change and the future of nation states, cyberculture
and the transnational flows of goods, people and contraband - occupy
the nexus between place, culture and politics.
|
Notes
-- |
| If
this page requires updated information, please use the form on this page. |
This page created: June 14, 2005
This page last updated: June 14, 2005
(external-no)
|
