On Parks, Squares and Oases: an Exploration ofn the Political Spaces in Hannah Arendt
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | On Parks, Squares and Oases: an Exploration ofn the Political Spaces in Hannah Arendt |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Edgar Straehle; University of Barcelona; Spain |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Political philosophy; political theory |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Hannah Arendt; Space; Power; Violence; Agora |
| 3. | Subject | Subject classification | 720704 |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | In this paper, I will explore the interpretation of space in Hannah Arendt’s thinking. For this purpose, I will examine the narrow relationship between space and power and I will take as an example the occupation and appropriation of People’s Park in Berkeley, which Arendt mentioned in On Violence. Afterwards, I will analyse how the reaction of the authorities focused their efforts on the recuperation of the occupied park, which turned into a space of power, and how they tried to reduce the protesters to impotence. In the third section, I will develop what Arendt understands by “desert” and “oasis” and I will explain why, according to this thinker, she considered that our world was threatened by a process of desertification that suppresses the political. Finally, I will show that political spaces depend on their relational dimension and cannot be merely identified with only one kind of spaces. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| 6. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | The present article has been carried out within the framework of the research project "Transmission from Female Philosophical Thinking" (FFI2015-63828-P, MINECO / FEDER, UE) and GRC "Creació i pensament de les dones" (2014 SGR44) |
| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2017-06-30 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 9. | Format | File format | PDF (Español), HTML (Español) |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/article/view/125 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy; Vol 6, No 10 (2017): January-June |
| 12. | Language | English=en | es |
| 13. | Relation | Supp. Files | |
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| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright (c) 2017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |