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Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection of theatre studies and cultural geography, this innovative study sketches its physical and imaginary contours. In From the Theater to the Plaza Matthew Feinberg guides readers on a journey through the development of the theatre, as both art and space, in Lavapiés. Offering a detailed analysis of dramatic texts and productions, performance spaces, urban planning documents, and the cultural activities of squatters, Feinberg sheds new light on the lead-up to Spain’s economic crisis and the emergence in 2011 of the 15-M anti-austerity protest movement. The result is a multidisciplinary account of how the spectacle of the contemporary city connects local, municipal, and global geographies. By linking the neighbourhood’s unique role as both a site and a subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, From the Theater to the Plaza offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the twenty-first-century city.

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From the Theater to the Plaza provides an indispensable look into the dialogic relationship between urban space and theater. Matthew Feinberg skillfully moves across three scales of experience (the local, the municipal, and the global) to offer a compelling reading of the urban history of both Madrid and Lavapies. Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University and author of Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapies to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read. Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953-2003

“From the Theater to the Plaza provides an indispensable look into the dialogic relationship between urban space and theater. Matthew Feinberg skillfully moves across three scales of experience (the local, the municipal, and the global) to offer a compelling reading of the urban history of both Madrid and Lavapiés.” Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University and author of Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology “Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapiés to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.” Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003

The details of Alfred de Quervain's expedition have until now been inaccessible to the English-speaking world. This scientific work represents a baseline for present studies of changes to the Greenland ice cap due to global warming. In addition to the exciting details of the journey and the scientific value of the results, the startled reaction of Greenlanders on first hearing Swiss yodelling and the amusement of the Greenlander Ania Ohlsen at the Swiss scientists' efforts at trying to repair kamiks make for a humorous narrative. William Barr, University of Calgary and editor of John Rae, Arctic Explorer: The Unfinished Autobiography The traverse of Greenland by a group of Swiss scientists led by Alfred de Quervain in 1912 was remarkable in what it achieved scientifically and safely, as well as in the fact that its great legacy has been ignored - until this book. The colour plates are amazing, and the lively tone of de Quervain's account takes our minds to these earlier times of exploration, when the world was still to be discovered by superior minds with determination and skill. I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in polar regions, Greenland, Greenlanders, or human adventures. Eric J. Rignot, University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Matthew I. Feinberg is assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Baldwin Wallace University.

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