ISBN:
978-3-8394-0463-8
,
978-3-89942-463-8
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (307 Seiten
Series Statement:
Materialitäten Band 1
Keywords:
Stadt Stadtforschung, ethnologische
;
Soziologie
;
Konflikt, sozialer
;
Gewalt
;
Urbanisation
Abstract:
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts -- I Politics of Space: The Modern, the Postmodern and the Postcolonial -- Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques / ANTHONY D. KING -- Contested Places and the Politics of Space / HELMUTH BERKING -- The City as Assemblage. Diasporic Cultures, Postmodern Spaces, and Biopolitics / COUZE VENN -- Remapping the Geopolitics of Terror: Uncanny Urban Spaces in Singapore / LISA LAW -- Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory, and the Loss of Secular Urban Space / ANIL BHATTI -- II Spatializing Identities -- The Politics and Poetics of Religion: Hindu Processions and Urban Conflicts / LILY KONG -- Negotiating the City—Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo / ANOUK DE KONING -- Negotiating Public Spaces: The Right to the Gendered City and the Right to Difference / TOVI FENSTER -- On the Road to Being White: The Construction of Whiteness in the Everyday Life of Expatriate German High Flyers in Singapore and London / LARS MEIER -- Prostitution—Power Relations between Space and Gender / MARTINA LÖW/RENATE RUHNE --- III Imageries of Cities -- Between Refeudalization and New Cultural Politics: The 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg / ELENA TRUBINA -- Reflections on a Cartography of the Non-Visible. Urban Experience and the Internet / MARC RIES -- Picturing Urban Identities / SERGEJ STOETZER -- Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin / SYBILLE FRANK -- Earthquake Recovery and Historic Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts / FATIMA AL-NAMMARI -- IV Exclusion, Security and Surveillance -- The Phenomenon of Exclusion / HEINZ BUDE -- Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time / SILKE STEETS -- Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques / LARS FRERS -- Violence Prevention in a South African Township / KOSTA MATHÉY -- Homeland/Target: Cities and the "War on Terror" / STEPHEN GRAHAM -- Terrorism and the Right to the Secure City: Safety vs. Security in Public Spaces / PETER MARCUSE
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