Negotiating Urban Conflicts : Interaction, Space and Control /

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 ove...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berking, Helmuth (Editor ), Frank, Sybille (Editor ), Frers, Lars (Editor ), Löw, Martina (Editor ), Meier, Lars (Editor ), Steets, Silke (Editor ), Stoetzer, Sergej (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2006]
Edición:1. Aufl.
Colección:Materialitäten ; 1.
Temas:
Land use > Economic aspects > Congresses.
Land use > Economic aspects.
Sociology, Urban > Congresses.
Urbanization > Congresses.
Utilisation du sol > Aspect économique > Congrès.
Utilisation du sol > Aspect économique.
Sociologie urbaine > Congrès.
Urbanisation > Congrès.
Land use > Economic aspects
Sociology, Urban
Urbanization
Conflict
Postcolonialism
City
Space
Place
Urbanity
Social Inequality
Neoliberalism
Urban Studies
Sociology
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts
  • Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques / King, Anthony D.
  • Contested Places and the Politics of Space / Berking, Helmuth
  • The City as Assemblage. Diasporic Cultures, Postmodern Spaces, and Biopolitics / Venn, Couze
  • Remapping the Geopolitics of Terror: Uncanny Urban Spaces in Singapore / Law, Lisa
  • Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory, and the Loss of Secular Urban Space / Bhatti, Anil
  • The Politics and Poetics of Religion: Hindu Processions and Urban Conflicts / Kong, Lily
  • Negotiating the City--Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo / De Koning, Anouk
  • Negotiating Public Spaces: The Right to the Gendered City and the Right to Difference / Fenster, Tovi
  • On the Road to Being White: The Construction of Whiteness in the Everyday Life of Expatriate German High Flyers in Singapore and London / Meier, Lars
  • Prostitution--Power Relations between Space and Gender / Löw, Martina ; Ruhne, Renate
  • Between Refeudalization and New Cultural Politics: The 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg / Trubina, Elena
  • Reflections on a Cartography of the Non-Visible. Urban Experience and the Internet / Ries, Marc
  • Picturing Urban Identities / Stoetzer, Sergej
  • Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin / Frank, Sybille
  • Earthquake Recovery and Historic Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts / Al-Nammari, Fatima
  • The Phenomenon of Exclusion / Bude, Heinz
  • Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time / Steets, Silke
  • Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques / Frers, Lars
  • Violence Prevention in a South African Township / Mathéy, Kosta
  • Homeland/Target: Cities and the "War on Terror" / Graham, Stephen
  • Terrorism and the Right to the Secure City: Safety vs. Security in Public Spaces / Marcuse, Peter
  • Authors.

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