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Marina Peterson's work focuses on performance, the relation between the city and
the state, spatial processes, and emergent social formations in the context of
globalization.
Her book, Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles,
is an ethnography of a free summer concert series. It explores how the public
concert audience is constituted as a multicultural urban public through spatial
and sonic processes.
Global Downtowns (co-edited with Gary McDonogh) includes discussions of
downtowns around the world, including those of Beijing, Havana, Los Angeles, and
Zanzibar.
Drawing on ethnographic research, the case studies address features of
downtowns that are
shared internationally and consider how downtowns look to
each other as
models for making
themselves
global.
Her current research is on shipping containers and their spaces of movement.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Performance, cities and citizenship, music and society, globalization and
transnationalism, production
of space, social theory, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Singapore.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Global Downtowns. Co-edited with Gary McDonogh. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.
2010 Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14742.html
2007 Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts. In Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects. Saskia Sassen, ed. Pp. 41-58. New York: Routledge.
2006 Patrolling the Plaza: Privatized Public Space and the Neoliberal State In Downtown Los Angeles. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development.
35(4):355-386.
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