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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372804403321

Titolo

Negotiating Urban Conflicts : Interaction, Space and Control / Helmuth Berking, Sybille Frank, Lars Frers, Martina Löw, Lars Meier, Silke Steets, Sergej Stoetzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015

2015, c2006

ISBN

9783839404638

3839404630

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308)

Collana

Materialitäten

Classificazione

MS 1750

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Conflict

Postcolonialism

City

Space

Place

Urbanity

Social Inequality

Neoliberalism

Urban Studies

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 7-9, 2005 at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts    9 Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques    15 Contested Places and the Politics of Space    29 The City as Assemblage. Diasporic Cultures, Postmodern Spaces, and Biopolitics    41 Remapping the Geopolitics of Terror: Uncanny Urban Spaces in Singapore    53 Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory, and the Loss of Secular Urban Space    67 The Politics and Poetics of Religion: Hindu Processions and Urban Conflicts    85 Negotiating the City-Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo    99 Negotiating Public Spaces: The



Right to the Gendered City and the Right to Difference    113 On the Road to Being White: The Construction of Whiteness in the Everyday Life of Expatriate German High Flyers in Singapore and London    125 Prostitution-Power Relations between Space and Gender    139 Between Refeudalization and New Cultural Politics: The 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg    155 Reflections on a Cartography of the Non-Visible. Urban Experience and the Internet    167 Picturing Urban Identities    177 Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin    195 Earthquake Recovery and Historic Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts    209 The Phenomenon of Exclusion    227 Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time    235 Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques    247 Violence Prevention in a South African Township    261 Homeland/Target: Cities and the "War on Terror"    277 Terrorism and the Right to the Secure City: Safety vs. Security in Public Spaces    289 Authors    305

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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