By Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanovic, Eulogio Guzmán
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the historic, political, and cultural narratives of capital towns akin to Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a cautious visible research, hinging at the methodological instruments of not just architectural and concrete layout but in addition cultural, historiographical, and anthropological experiences. the gathering offers extra how you can conceive of ways approaches of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals another way with no wasting snatch of neighborhood detailed architectural and spatial beneficial properties. The essays additionally articulate the numerous complicated political and ideological agendas of a various set of sovereign entities that deliberate, built, displayed, and played their societal beliefs within the areas in their capitals, finally confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial.
Contributors: Jelena Bogdanovic, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Parmly Toxey, Alexei Vranich
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The aim of this project, therefore, is twofold: (1) to present case studies from a variety of divergent cultures that explore the ways politics took spatial form across time and space; and (2) to probe empirically how the production of space is a common tactical process in politics employed by those wishing to govern more effectively, which tests the foundational components of Smith’s theoretical approach toward political landscapes. Smith closely delineates his framework of research by focusing on early complex polities with relatively abundant archaeological and textual references.
21 Smith’s work is of special interest for both theoretical and empirical studies of space. His work is a reminder of how empirical studies that engage space, both in the landscape and human-made environments, can provide a critical understanding of diachronic issues of significance in historical and contemporary worlds. 22 Thus, Smith opposes approaches commonly used in archaeological, historical, and regional studies that are based on universal, evolutionary, deterministic notions that aim to generalize over studies of particular cultures and privilege time over space.
Moreover, during its millennium-long history, Constantinople housed several imperial palaces, all today known from fragmentary textual and archaeological evidence, that merit special studies on their diachronic lives within changing locations in the city and on their spatial relations to the cathedral of Hagia Sophia and other foundations. Instead, Bogdanović focuses on places of intersections of public performance and display of political authority. She examines geopolitical relationships between the initial model of Rome, which was renewed and renegotiated in Constantinople as a new spiritual and political center of the Roman-Byzantine Empire.