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Negotiating Urban Conflicts : Interaction, Space and Control /

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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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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Berking, Helmuth (Editor), Frank, Sybille (Editor), Frers, Lars (Editor), Löw, Martina (Editor), Meier, Lars (Editor), Steets, Silke (Editor), Stoetzer, Sergej (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2006]
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Materialitäten ; 1.
Subjects:
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
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.