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Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants /
What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld [Germany] :
Transcript Verlag,
[2013]
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| Series: | Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ;
Bd. 17. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the 'exoticization of the ghetto' (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories. |
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| Item Description: | "The volume at hand is the outcome of a conference which was organised by the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences (Historische Kulturwissenschaften, HKW) of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from March 30th until April 1st 2012"--Page 8 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1306995892 9781306995894 9783839424735 3839424739 |