Negotiating Urban Conflicts Interaction, Space and Control

• Autres auteurs: Berking, Helmuth (Éditeur intellectuel), Frank, Sybille (Éditeur intellectuel), Frers, Lars (Éditeur intellectuel), Löw, Martina (Éditeur intellectuel), Meier, Lars (Éditeur intellectuel), Steets, Silke (Éditeur intellectuel), Stoetzer, Sergej (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2006
• Collection: Materialitäten 1
• Sujets: Sociology; Conflict; Postcolonialism; City; Space; Place; Urbanity; Social Inequality; Neoliberalism; Urban Studies
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (308 p.)

ISBN

9783839404638
9783899424638

Accès

Open Access