City publics the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters
IntroductionThe (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- City publics : the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- Constructing public space -- Psychoanalytic accounts -- The book's outline -- Symbolic spaces of difference : contesting the eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey -- Con...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Routledge
2006
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Questioning Cities
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | IntroductionThe (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- City publics : the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- Constructing public space -- Psychoanalytic accounts -- The book's outline -- Symbolic spaces of difference : contesting the eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey -- Constitution matters : the case of the Tenafly, New Jersey eruv -- Planning and local government : English sites of conservatism and the Barnet eruv -- Discourses of dissent -- Concluding reflections -- Postscript -- Nostalgia at work : living with difference in a London street market -- Princess Street market -- Nostalgia -- Crime and safety -- Cosmopolitanism and socio-economic decline -- Being anglophone -- Being Christian -- Welfare chauvinism -- Conclusion -- Risky space and money talks : the Hampstead Ponds meet state regulation -- The Hampstead Ponds -- A question of money? -- Conclusion -- Disrobing in public : embodied differences in bathing sites -- Steaming bodies : Turkish baths and the performance of difference -- Hampstead Ponds -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Invisible subjects : encounter, desire and association amongst older people -- Invisibility -- The university of the third age (U3A) -- Allotments -- Unsexy bodies -- A state of fear -- Conclusion -- Children's publics -- Children and public space : a case study -- Conclusion -- The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters : some concluding reflections -- Public/private -- Stranger danger -- Risk -- Affect effect -- Towards enchanted urban encounters. "City Publics investigates the ordinary spaces in the city where differences are negotiated. It is concerned with the borders, and boundaries, the constraints and limits on living with, accepting, acknowledging and sometimes celebrating, difference in public. Through ethnographic studies of a number of unusual, surprising and marginal sites, which are not usually the focus of debate, as well as studies of different subjects in public spaces, the book aims to interrogate how difference is negotiated and performed. When and how differences are lived agonistically, and how power is exercised often subtly, not through dominance or manipulation, represents a further focus. Also challenged are the conventional notions of the public and public space "This book explores the conditions under which violent and negative emotions can erupt to the detriment of others, and elucidates through fine-grained exploration what underlies racist, homophobic, sexist or any other phobic/ist exclusionary practices, so that it becomes possible in some way to expose and confront them. At the same time this book uncovers and reveals some of the many and serendipitous sites of enchantment and pleasure to be found in the city "With numerous photographs and drawings City Publics not only throws new light on encounters with others in public space, but also destabilises dominant, sometimes simplistic, universalised accounts and helps us reimagine urban public space as a site of potentiality, difference and enchanted encounters."--Jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [176] - 185 |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 193 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0415312280 0-415-31228-0 0415312272 0-415-31227-2 9780415312288 978-0-415-31228-8 9780415312271 978-0-415-31227-1 |