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Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany /
A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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| Colección: | Space and place ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary and Acronyms Chapter I: Introduction ; Where?; Berlin (in) Alexanderplatz; Inventing East and West Anthropologies of the City; Anthropology's Objects Chapter II: Constructing a Future Berlin ; Suspect Debates; The Capital Topographies of Immorality; The European City Solids and Voids; Emptiness Chapter III: The Disintegration of a Socialist Exemplar ; Diagnosing the 'Weak Heart of the City'; Inversions of Sociality; Failures of Government; A Dangerous Place?; A Problem of 'the Social'; Producing Disorder Chapter IV: Promising Plans ; On (Not) Planning; Assembling Alexanderplatz; Premises and Promises; New Hybrids, Old Ambivalences; Postponing Failure Chapter V: The Object of Grievance ; A Time of Citizens; Citizens Summoned; Citizens Made; Governing Perceptions; Legitimate Concerns; A Citizenly Engagement with Place Chapter VI: A Robust Square ; The Place of Young People; Networking; Alexanderplatz Potentialities; Experts and Citizens Revisited; Perspectival Disparities; The Universal, the Particular and the Robust Chapter VII: In Conclusion, Whose Alexanderplatz? Bibliography