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Introduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de Mexico" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortazar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumperica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsivais's Los rituales del caos

Havana in the Nueva trova repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso / Robin Moore -- Last snapshots/take 2 : personal and collective shipwrecks in Buenos Aires / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Buenos Aires and the literary construction of urban space / Richard Young -- Body art and the remaking of Mexico City / Anny Brooksbank-Jones -- Feasting on Latina/o labor in multicultural Los Angeles / Rodolfo D. Torres and Juan R. Buriel -- Mediating the public sphere in Latina/o Detroit : heart and margin of an embattled metropolis / Catherine L. Benamou -- Textual revisions of identity : nostalgia and modernity in Asunción / Amanda Holmes -- Northeastern images : Recife and Salvador in contemporary Brazilian cinema / Angela Prysthon -- Performing citizenship : migration, Andean festivals, and public spaces in Lima / Gisela Cánepa -- The TransMilenio experience : mass transit in Bogotá and national urban identity / Hector Fernández l'Hoeste -- The Feria del Libro and the ritualization of cultural belonging in Havana / Antoni Kapcia and Par Kumaraswami -- Zapatistas in Mexico City and the performance of ethnic citizenship / Andrea Noble -- Afterword : The dialectics of identity in the Latin/o American global city / Abril Trigo

In Disasters in Paradise, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social and environmental effects of Florida's public and private sector development policies. Contributors explore how these practices have increased the vulnerability of Floridians to natural disasters.

Rethinks objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and Marxism – beyond the realism–nominalism divideRethinks the concept of objectivity through its relation to fiction beyond their mere oppositionConceptualises 'objective fictions'Highlights a shared background underpinning realist and nominalist approaches to the relation between subjectivity and objectivityRevitalises modern/contemporary philosophical currents, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist critique of political economy beyond the realism-nominalism divideIncludes contributions from a mix of renowned thinkers and from the new generation, including Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo TomšičRelying on contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist tradition, this volume moves beyond the deadlock between nominalism and realism. It rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies, and conspiracy theories, among other phenomena. What all these phenomena exhibit are paradoxical entanglements of subjectivity with objectivity and of fiction with truth.When it comes to questions of objectivity in current philosophical debates and public discourse, we are witnessing the re-emergence and growing importance of two classical, opposed approaches: nominalism and (metaphysical) realism. Today's nominalist stances, by absolutizing intersubjectivity, are moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective reality. By contrast, today's realist positions, including those bound up with scientific discourse, insist on the category of the object-in-itself as irreducible to any kind of subjective mediation. However, despite their seeming mutual exclusivity, both approaches share fundamental presuppositions, namely, those of neat separations between the spheres of subjectivity and objectivity as well as between the realms of fiction and truth.