The third realm of luxury: connecting real places and imaginary spaces
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 36562822
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350062771
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited volume introduces the innovative concept of ‘the third realm of luxury’. It is the first book to explore the interplay between the real and the imaginary realms of luxury. The editors commence by providing an original conceptualisation of the connections between the real places and the imaginary spaces of luxury inspired by the work of sociologist Henri Lefebvre and cultural geographer Edward W. Soja. The research draws together an interdisciplinary group of ten internationally renowned scholars to investigate the idea of the third realm of luxury. A rigorous peer review process was conducted, which included a two-day research seminar at Winchester School of Art in 2017, where the editors presented the overarching conceptual contribution and contributors’ draft chapters were discussed and critiqued. Following the editors’ opening chapter, nine subsequent contributions investigate issues through the socio-cultural and spatial lens of the third realm of luxury. The contributions range across spatial scales from the individual to the global, incorporating perspectives on philosophy and architecture, habitation, domestic interiors, hotels, lounge spaces, apartments, palaces, elite enclosures, free ports, and the global wine market. Thus, the book considers the most significant developments in the theories and practices of luxurious places and spaces over the last fifty years. Consequently, it not only offers a rigorous and extensive appraisal of the third realm of luxury but also contributes to the growing field of critical luxury studies originating from the editors’ volume of the same title (Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media).
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- Non-English
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