Imagining Global Amsterdambrings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. Subjects include: Amsterdam’s place in global cultural memory; expressions of global consciousness in Amsterdam in the ‘Golden Age’; articulations of Amsterdam as a tolerant, multicultural, and permissive ‘global village’; and globalization’s impact ‘on the ground’ through city branding, the cultural heritage industry, and cultural production in the city.
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, and united by a broad humanities approach, this collection forms a multifaceted inquiry into the dynamic relationship between Amsterdam, globalization, and the urban imaginary.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary / Marco de Waard
- Cultural Mobility, Global Performativity
- Imagining Amsterdam, Imagining Globality
- History, Culture, and Geography in a World City
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part I: Historicizing Global Amsterdam
- 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions / Ulrich Ufer
- Globalization and Global Systems in Historical Perspective
- Early-Modern Ideas of Social Change
- Positive Imaginaries of the Global City
- Ambivalent Imaginaries of the Global City
- Dystopian Imaginaries of the Global City
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery / Dorothee Sturkenboom
- The Amsterdam Coffer
- Picturing Dutch versus Foreign Interests
- The Patriots’ Economic Eyeglasses
- Metropolis versus Country
- Amsterdam Money and the Transnational Imagination
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam / Michael Wintle
- 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel / Joyce Goggin and Erinc Salor
- Gambling, Speculation, Heritage
- Fictional Gambles and Other Risky Endeavours
- The Painterly Novel and the Heritage Business
- A Baroque Universe: Stephenson, Finance, Systems
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel / Marco de Waard
- ‘Signs of Autumn’
- Cosmopolitanism, Authorship, and Literary Form
- Netherland: Tracing Memories of New Amsterdam
- The Thousand Autumns: Remembering Dejima and the Spectre of ‘Dutch Decline’
- Conclusion: Towards a ‘Memory of the Global Past’?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part II: Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings
- 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken’s Global Amsterdam / Patricia Pisters
- Form: Cramped Spaces, Cramped Minds
- Punch: Global Parallels
- Caress: The World Nearby
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Filmography
- Television
- 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space / Marco de Waard
- ‘Rembrandt 400’ as Global Mega-Event
- ‘Rembrandt 400’ and the Museumization of Urban Space
- Peter Greenaway’s Rembrandt Films and the Idea of Public Art
- A Spatial History of the Rembrandt Biopic
- Conclusion: Places into Non-Places
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Filmography
- 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering’s Detective Fiction / Sabine Vanacker
- Introduction
- The City as Palimpsest
- Heroin Heaven and Anarchy
- Imagining Multicultural Amsterdam
- Works Cited
- 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza’s Short Story ‘Apolline’ / Henriette Louwerse
- Cultural Re-Education
- Two Melancholy Monologues
- Alternative Vision
- Textual Play
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Part III: Global Amsterdam’s Cultural Geography
- 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity’s Contested Trajectories / Mark E. Denaci
- New Babylon: Ambivalent Utopia?
- New Babylon as Metaphor for Amsterdam Today: Heterotopias of Freedom and Containment
- New Babylon as Dystopia: Zuidas and the Globalization of Amsterdam
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 12. Amsterdam’s Architectural Image from Early-Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse / Freek Schmidt
- Introduction
- Images of the City and Their Uses
- Mapping Amsterdam
- The Atlas Fouquet
- The Grachtenboek
- The Grachtenboek Rediscovered
- The Concept of the Grachtengordel
- Architecture and Image
- Works Cited
- 13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity / Jeoen Dewulf
- The Liberation of Amsterdam
- New Monuments for Amsterdam
- New Population Groups, Old Strategies
- The Return of Anti-Semitism
- Reterritorialization
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam / Bharain Mac an Bhreithiun
- The I amsterdam Campaign, Placemaking, and Graphic Design
- Placemaking and Globalization: The Case of De Pijp
- Conclusion: Place as Process and Event
- Works Cited
- 15. A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place / Michael Deinema and Manuel B. Aalbers
- Introduction
- A Genealogy of Amsterdam Prostitution as Global, Real and Imagined
- Amsterdam’s Imagined Moral Geography: Historical Roots and Shifts
- Trying to Control the Uncontrollable: Legalizing Prostitution and Plan 1012
- New Control Efforts in the Globalized Red Light District
- Ravaged Prostitutes and Outperformed Amsterdam
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics / Markha Valenta
- Prelude
- A Story
- A Second Story
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index
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