Join Columbia's Harriman Institute for a talk with Natalie Koch, associate professor of geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, about her book, "The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia." Through a cross-regional empirical study of recent capital city development schemes in Central Asia (Astana, Baku, Ashgabat), the Arabian Peninsula (Abu Dhabi, Doha), and East Asia (Naypyidaw, Bandar Seri Begawan), Koch shows how synecdoche, as a spatial metaphor, can divert attention from the multiple ways that spectacle’s unspectacular Others are expressed and scaled in each region.

Speaker:

Natalie Koch, associate professor of geography, Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs