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Title Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants / Hans-Christian Petersen (ed.).

Publication Info. Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript Verlag, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Series Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften = Mainz historical cultural sciences ; volume 17
Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 17.
Note "The volume at hand is the outcome of a conference which was organised by the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences (Historische Kulturwissenschaften, HKW) of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from March 30th until April 1st 2012"--Page 8
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Summary 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.
Contents A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure : A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- The Subalterns Speak Out : Urban Plebeian Society in Late Imperial Russia / Ilya V. Gerasimov -- " ... not intended for the Rich" : Public Places as Points of Identification for the Urban Poor, St. Petersburg (1850-1914) / Hans-Christian Petersen -- Blood in the Air : Everyday Violence in the Experience of the Petersburg Poor, 1905-1917 / Mark D. Steinberg -- Outcast Vienna 1900 : The Politics of Transgression / Wolfgang Maderthaner -- Revisiting Campbell Bunk / Jerry White -- Creating the City of Delhi : Stories of Strong Women and Weak Walls / Sonja Wengoborski, Jaspal Naveel Singh -- Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks / Hauke Jan Rolf -- Urban Poverty and Gentrification : A Comparative View on Different Areas in Hamburg / Ingrid Breckner -- Europe's only Megacity : Urban Growth, Migration and Gentrification in 21st Century Moscow / Julia Rötijer, Jan Kusber.
Language In English.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject Urban poor -- Congresses.
Urban renewal -- Congresses.
Pauvres en milieu urbain -- Congrès.
Rénovation urbaine -- Congrès.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Social groups.
Urban communities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Urban poor
Urban renewal
Indexed Term Culture.
Poverty.
Slum.
Social History.
Social Inequality.
Sociology.
Space.
Urban Studies.
Urbanity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Added Author Petersen, Hans-Christian, 1972- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9783837624731
ISBN 1306995892 (electronic bk.)
9781306995894 (electronic bk.)
9783839424735 (electronic bk.)
3839424739 (electronic bk.)
3837624730
9783837624731

 
    
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