Wagadu Volume 7: Today's Global Flâneuse

About the Book

Today’s Global Flâneuse offers a fresh analysis of the flâneuse on the 21st-century global stage, drawn from the perspectives of art history, mobility studies, sociology, and urban geography. The essays and artwork in this volume offer histories of Eurocentric 19th-century flânerie that still resonate in 21st-century transnational terms. This special issue also reveals the decisive impact of the flâneuse’s practices beyond the strictly urban, extending into rural environs via the mega- and ex-urban, thus contributing to the continuing debate regarding the ever-narrowing urban/rural divide.

About the Author

Kathryn Kramer is currently an Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department at SUNY Cortland. She completed the PhD at Columbia University in New York City. Her current research defines the contemporary practice of flânerie by both genders as a cultural metric for the globalizing city.