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City publics : the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Sophie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Questioning cities series.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Public spaces.
Cities and towns > Case studies.
Online Access:Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters
  • City publics : the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters
  • Constructing public space
  • Psychoanalytic accounts
  • The book's outline
  • Symbolic spaces of difference : contesting the eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey
  • Constitution matters : the case of the Tenafly, New Jersey eruv
  • Planning and local government : English sites of conservatism and the Barnet eruv
  • Discourses of dissent
  • Concluding reflections
  • Postscript
  • Nostalgia at work : living with difference in a London street market
  • Princess Street market
  • Nostalgia
  • Crime and safety
  • Cosmopolitanism and socio-economic decline
  • Being anglophone
  • Being Christian
  • Welfare chauvinism
  • Conclusion
  • Risky space and money talks : the Hampstead Ponds meet state regulation
  • The Hampstead Ponds
  • A question of money?
  • Conclusion
  • Disrobing in public : embodied differences in bathing sites
  • Steaming bodies : Turkish baths and the performance of difference
  • Hampstead Ponds
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript
  • Invisible subjects : encounter, desire and association amongst older people
  • Invisibility
  • The university of the third age (U3A)
  • Allotments
  • Unsexy bodies
  • A state of fear
  • Conclusion
  • Children's publics
  • Children and public space : a case study
  • Conclusion
  • The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters : some concluding reflections
  • Public/private
  • Stranger danger
  • Risk
  • Affect effect
  • Towards enchanted urban encounters.