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Post-Cosmopolitan Cities : Explorations of Urban Coexistence.

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalize...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Humphrey, Caroline
Otros Autores: Skvirskaja, Vera
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Colección:Space and place.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; acknowledgments; Introduction
  • Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja; Chapter 1
  • Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City; Chapter 2
  • Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa; Chapter 3
  • At the City's Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa; Chapter 4
  • 'A Gate, but Leading Where?' In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi; Chapter 5
  • Cosmopolitan Architecture: 'Deviations' from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-First-Century Warsaw.
  • Chapter 6
  • Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice chapter 7
  • Haunted by the Past and the Ambivalences of the Present: Immigration and Thessalonica's Second Path to Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 8
  • 'For Badakhshan
  • the Country without Borders!': Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan Tajikistan; notes on contributors; INDEX.