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Record Nr.

UNISA996308828503316

Titolo

Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants / / edited by Hans-Christian Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-8394-2473-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften ; 17

Classificazione

LB 45000

Disciplina

307.3364

Soggetti

Urban poor

Urban renewal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1  Contents    5  lntroduction    7  A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure    15  The Subalterns Speak Out    47  "... not intended for the Rich"    71  Blood in the Air    97  Outcast Vienna 1900    121  Revisiting Campbell Bunk    135  Creating the City of Delhi    147  Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks    169  Urban Poverty and Gentrification    193  Europe's only Megacity    209  Contributors    237

Sommario/riassunto

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.