David Bell, Azzedine Haddour

City Visions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

City Visions focuses on contemporary issues in city cultures and urban politics. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, the book ranges from discussions of the city in contemporary works of fiction to critiques of urban policies and explorations of the experiences of being in the city. Each chapter seeks to explore representational, theoretical and experiential elements of the contemporary city, and whether focusing on particular urban practices - tourism, dancing, 'hanging around' - particular spaces - streets, city centres, ruins - or particular theoretical perspectives - postmodernism, ethics, postcolonialism - each chapter brings to light its own city and its own vision. Taken together the essays suggest exciting new agendas for thinking and talking about cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780582327412
• ISBN-10: 0582327415
• Artikelnr.: 26962963

Autorenporträt

David Bell, Azzedine Haddour

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors 1. What We Talk About When We Talk
About the City 2. Imag(in)ing a Post-Industrial Potteries 3. Capital
Calcutta: Coins, Maps, Monuments, Souvenirs, and Tourism 4. Citing
Difference; Vagrancy, Nomadism, and the Site of the Colonial and
Post-colonial 5. Denizens, Citizens, Tourists, and Others; Marginality and
Mobility in the Writings of James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. 6. Suburban
Tales: Television, Masculinity and Textual Geographies 7. Ethical
Transgressions Beyond the City Wall 8. Dancing Bodies in City Settings:
Construction of Spaces and Subjects 9. Moving Through the City 10. Finding
a Place in the Street: CCTV, Surveillance and Young People's Use of Urban
Public Space 11. Cosmopolitan and the Sexed City 12. The New Segregation
13. A Critique of Integration as the Remedy for Segregation 14. Otherness
and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of the Plurals Community 15. 'Not a
Straight Line but a Curve', or Cities are not Mirrors of Modernity.