Negotiating Urban Conflicts
Interaction, Space and Control
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 over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts
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I. Politics of Space: The Modern, the Postmodern and the Postcolonial
Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques
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Contested Places and the Politics of Space
Seiten 29 - 40 -
The City as Assemblage. Diasporic Cultures, Postmodern Spaces, and Biopolitics
Seiten 41 - 52 -
Remapping the Geopolitics of Terror: Uncanny Urban Spaces in Singapore
Seiten 53 - 66 -
Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory, and the Loss of Secular Urban Space
Seiten 67 - 82 -
II. Spatializing Identities
The Politics and Poetics of Religion: Hindu Processions and Urban Conflicts
Seiten 85 - 98 -
Negotiating the City-Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo
Seiten 99 - 112 -
Negotiating Public Spaces: The Right to the Gendered City and the Right to Difference
Seiten 113 - 124 -
On the Road to Being White: The Construction of Whiteness in the Everyday Life of Expatriate German High Flyers in Singapore and London
Seiten 125 - 138 -
Prostitution-Power Relations between Space and Gender
Seiten 139 - 152 -
III. Imageries of Cities
Between Refeudalization and New Cultural Politics: The 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg
Seiten 155 - 166 -
Reflections on a Cartography of the Non-Visible. Urban Experience and the Internet
Seiten 167 - 176 -
Picturing Urban Identities
Seiten 177 - 194 -
Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
Seiten 195 - 208 -
Earthquake Recovery and Historic Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts
Seiten 209 - 224 -
IV. Exclusion, Security and Surveillance
The Phenomenon of Exclusion
Seiten 227 - 234 -
Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time
Seiten 235 - 246 -
Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques
Seiten 247 - 260 -
Violence Prevention in a South African Township
Seiten 261 - 276 -
Homeland/Target: Cities and the "War on Terror"
Seiten 277 - 288 -
Terrorism and the Right to the Secure City: Safety vs. Security in Public Spaces
Seiten 289 - 304 -
Authors
Seiten 305 - 307
27. September 2015, 308 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-0463-8
Dateigröße: 9.64 MB