Post-cosmopolitan cities : explorations of urban coexistence / / edited by Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban; Cosmopolitanism; Urbanization - Social aspects; Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
• Classificazione: LB 72000
• Altri autori: HumphreyCaroline SkvirskajaVera
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; acknowledgements; Introduction - Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja; Chapter 1 - Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City; Chapter 2 - Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa; Chapter 3 - At the City's Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa; Chapter 4 - 'A Gate, but Leading Where?' In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi; Chapter 5 - Cosmopolitan Architecture: 'Deviations' from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-First-Century Warsaw ; Chapter 6 - Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice Chapter 7 - Haunted by the Past and the Ambivalences of the Present: Immigration and Thessalonica's Second Path to Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 8 - 'For Badakhshan - the Country without Borders!': Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan City in Tajikistan1; notes on contributors; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people.
• Titolo autorizzato: Post-cosmopolitan cities
• ISBN: 1-283-65563-2; 0-85745-511-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816182403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Space and Place