Resistance in the Deceleration Lane

Velocentrism, Slow Culture and Everyday Practice

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Marzena Kubisz

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Literary and Cultural Theory,

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Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices, Resistance in the Deceleration Lane uses the velocentric perspective to examine the phenomenon of «slow living» and its rhetoric. The book analyzes cultural practices which are inspired by the conviction that the increased speed of everyday life cannot be accepted unquestioningly. It portrays slowness as a strategy of contestation and resistance on one hand, and on the other it highlights the process of the gradual commercialization of the slow logo and suggests the rise of a post-slow stage in the history of speed.

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Marzena Kubisz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia (Poland). Her research focuses on body, multiculturalism and the social impacts of speed. She is the author of Strategies of Resistance. Body, Identity and Western Culture (Peter Lang, 2003).

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October 21st, 2014

Author

Marzena Kubisz

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

220

Series

Literary and Cultural Theory,

Dimensions

148x210x25

ISBN-13

9783631655580

Product ID

22821463

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