In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. Lefebvre's massive body of work has generated two main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Life merges these two schools of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures This book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures. LIST OF FIGURES vii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii 1 On the production of Henri Lefebvre 1 Stefan Kipfer, Kanishka Goonewardena, Christian Schmid, and Richard Milgrom PART I: DIALECTICS OF SPACE AND TIME 25 2 Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space: towards a three-dimensional dialectic 27 Christian Schmid 3 Reading The Urban Revolution: space and representation 46 Walter Prigge 4 Space as concrete abstraction: Hegel, Marx, and modern urbanism in Henri Lefebvre 62 Lukasz Stanek 5 Mondialisation before globalization: Lefebvre and Axelos 80 Stuart Elden 6 Lefebvre without Heidegger: "Left-Heideggerianism" qua contradictio in adiecto 94 Geoffrey Waite PART II: RHYTHMS OF URBANIZATION AND EVERYDAY LIFE 115 7 Marxism and everyday life: on Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and some others 117 Kanishka Goonewardena 8 Henri Lefebvre and urban everyday life: in search of the possible 134 Klaus Ronneberger 9 Rhythms, streets, cities 147 Kurt Meyer 10 Lessons in Surrealism: relationality, event, encounter 161 Sara Nadal-Melsi 11 Lefebvre and Debord: a Faustian fusion 176 Andy Merrifield PART III: DIFFERENCE, HEGEMONY, AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY 191 12 How Lefebvre urbanized Gramsci: hegemony, everyday life, and difference 193 Stefan Kipfer 13 Totality, hegemony, difference: Henri Lefebvre and Raymond Williams 212 Andrew Shmuely 14 Henri Lefebvre's critique of state productivism 231 Neil Brenner 15 Right to the city: politics of citizenship 250 Liette Gilbert and Mustafa Dike TD> 16 Lucien Kroll: design, difference, everyday life 264 Richard Milgrom PART IV: CONCLUSION 283 17 Globalizing Lefebvre? 285 Stefan Kipfer, Christian Schmid, Kanishka Goonewardena, and Richard Milgrom INDEX 306