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The promise of the city : space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought / / Kian Tajbakhsh



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Autore: Tajbakhsh Kian <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The promise of the city : space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought / / Kian Tajbakhsh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
Disciplina: 307.76
Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban
Marxian school of sociology
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Identity, Structure, and the Spaces of the City -- 1. Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity -- 2. Beyond the Functionalist Bias in Urban Theory -- 3. Toward the Historicity and the Contingency of Identity -- 4. Difference, Democracy, and the City -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.
Titolo autorizzato: The promise of the city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612758829
1-59734-832-5
0-520-92464-9
1-282-75882-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910449713803321
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