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SPACE
24-1, 2002
Brian RUSTED
Introduction
Tim B. ROGERS
Henri Lefebvre, Space and Folklore
Julie PAQUETTE
Expérience
spatiale et bien-être urbain : le cas des jardins communautaires montréalais
Curtis D. HIRSH
Green
Organizing in Austin, Texas: Place-Ballet and the Rhetorical Community, 1990 - 1999
Laurent JÉRÔME
Les
itinéraires de l'exclusion pour un groupe de sans-abri
Cheryl TEELUCKSINGH
Spatiality and Environmental Justice in Parkdale
Alfred G. MUELLER II
Constructing Power Architecturally: A Spatial Look at Uniate Catholicism in Kyiv Today
Carole ROSENSTEIN
An
Object in its Own Domain
Martine GERONIMII
Le French Market à la Nouvelle Orléans : Alibi patrimonial et mise en scène
touristique d'un espace préservé
Benjamin R. BATES
The New
York Yankees and the Conservative Use of Space
Valérie FOURNIER, Geoff LIGHTFOOT
Stages of busi(-)ness and identity
Stephanie WHITE
Performance
and Memory: the Trans-Canada Highway and the Jumping Pound Grade Separator, Alberta
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The New York Yankees and the Conservative
Use of Space
Benjamin R. Bates
University of Georgia, U.S.A.
New York City's "Canyon of Heroes", the stretch of Broadway between Wall Street and City Hall, is often
used as a space for celebrating sports, military, or political achievements through a parade. This essay offers
an analysis of one iteration of a parade -- the New York Yankees 1998 victory parade -- and its (re)presentation
by NBC. Drawing on Michel de Certeau's concept of la perruque, the essay argues that a negotiation of multiple
readings of this space (macro, micro, and in-between views) allow us to understand how several threads of symbols
are woven together to create a politically and economically conservative fabric of spatial representation. The
essay offers implications of the conservative use of space for the theorization of spatial theory and critical
intervention.
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