ISBN:
9781942173328
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 260 Seiten)
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Sociology, Urban
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A pioneering study of the new forms of emancipatory urbanism emerging in these times of global crisis. An activist and architectural account of urban life that passionately reveals cities as the sites of manifest social conflict as well as spaces of emancipation.
Abstract:
Introduction: spatiotemporal thresholds and the experience of otherness -- Beyond borders -- Thresholds as social artifacts -- Approaching otherness -- An emancipating spatiality? -- Part I -- 1. Exemplary metropolitan rhythms and the city of enclaves -- Rhythms, social practices, and public space -- The logic of red zones -- The partitioned city and the "framing" of identities -- A "state of exception" becoming the rule -- Exception versus thresholds -- Red zones as normalizing exceptions and the "city of thresholds" -- Citizens before the fencing politics -- From the city of enclaves to the city of thresholds -- 2. Inventing rhythms and inhabiting exception -- Inhabiting rhythms -- Habits, habitation, and otherness -- An experience of the aftermath: inhabiting a "state of exception" -- Can space activate memories of discontinuity? -- Part II -- 3. Walter Benjamin's thresholds -- Traces and individuality -- The flâneur and urban phantasmagoria -- The dialectics of disenchantment -- A "study of thresholds" -- 4. Navigating the metropolitan space: walking as a form of negotiation with otherness -- The metaphor of navigation -- Crossing passages to otherness -- Negotiating choreographies -- 5. Theatricality: the art of creating thresholds -- Approaching the other -- Distance and democracy -- Distance, difference, and racism -- Four steps towards the different -- Theatrical distance -- Proximate otherness -- Baudelaire and the clown -- The theatrical city -- Neighborhoods and manageable proximity -- Part III -- 6. Heterotopias: appropriating Foucault's geography of otherness -- Power, order, and places -- The spatialization of knowledge -- Spaces of otherness? -- Constitution in turmoil -- Heterotopias as spaces in suspense.
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