South and North
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This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the volume interrogate the modes of production that make up the fabric of urban spaces and the lives of their inhabitants. They also rethink practices that engender 'cityness' in diverse but increasingly interlinked conglomerations. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, city studies, development studies, global South studies, urban geography, built environment and literature.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the volume interrogate the modes of production that make up the fabric of urban spaces and the lives of their inhabitants. They also rethink practices that engender 'cityness' in diverse but increasingly interlinked conglomerations. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, city studies, development studies, global South studies, urban geography, built environment and literature.
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Autorenporträt
Kerry Bystrom is Professor of English and Human Rights and Associate Dean of the College at Bard College Berlin, a Liberal Arts University, Germany. Her research is rooted in South and Southern African literary and cultural studies, with a current project on the cultural politics of the Cold War South Atlantic. Ashleigh Harris is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden. Harris publishes in the field of Southern African, particularly Zimbabwean literature. She is primary investigator in a research project titled 'African Street Literatures and the Future of Literary Form', funded by the Swedish Research Council and based at Uppsala University, Sweden. Andrew J. Webber is Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research ranges widely over modern German-language visual and textual culture, with comparative and interdisciplinary interests, and a particular focus on urban studies.