Urban Theory Beyond the West

A World of Cities
Herausgeber: Edensor, Tim; Jayne, Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in 'the Global North'. Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters from leading scholars, raising important theoretical issues about cities throughout the world. Past and current conceptual developments are reviewed and organized into four parts: 'De-centring the City' offers critical perspectives on re-imagining urban theoretical debates through consideration of the diversity and heterogeneity of city life; 'Order/Disorder' focuses on the political, physical and everyday ways in which cities are regulated and used in ways that confound this ordering; 'Mobilities' explores the movements of people, ideas and policy in cities and between them and 'Imaginaries' investigates how urbanity is differently perceived and experienced. There are three kinds of chapters published in this volume: theories generated about urbanity 'beyond the West'; critiques, reworking or refining of 'Western' urban theory based upon conceptual reflection about cities from around the world and hybrid approaches that develop both of these perspectives. Urban Theory Beyond the West offers a critical and accessible review of theoretical developments, providing an original and groundbreaking contribution to urban theory. It is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in urban studies, development studies and geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780415589758
• ISBN-10: 0415589754
• Artikelnr.: 33380493

Autorenporträt

Tim Edensor teaches Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include tourism, materialities and mobilities. Mark Jayne is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include; consumption, the urban order, city cultures and cultural economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Urban Theory Beyond 'the West' Part 1: De-Centring the
City 2. No Longer the Subaltern: Refiguring Cities of the Global South 3.
China Exceptionalism? Unbounding Narratives on Urban China 4. Urban Theory
beyond the 'East/West Divide'? Cities and Urban Research in Postsocialist
Europe 5. Urbanism, Colonialism, and Subalternity Part 2: Order/Disorder
6. Governing Cities without States? Rethinking Urban Political Theories in
Asia 7. Public Parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires 8. An
Illness Called Managua: 'Extraordinary' Urbanisation and 'Mal- Development'
in Nicaragua 9. The Concept of Privacy and Space in Kurdish Cities 10. The
Networked City: Popular Modernizers and Urban Transformation in Morelia,
Mexico, 1880-1955 Part 3: Mobilities 11. Distinctly Delhi: Affect and
Exclusion in a Crowded City 12. Shanghai Borderlands: The Rise of a New
Urbanity? 13. Contemporary Urban Culture in Latin America: Everyday Life in
Santiago, Chile 14. Urban (Im)mobility: Public Encounters in Dubai Part 4:
Imaginaries 15. Reality Tours: Experiencing the 'Real Thing' in Rio de
Janeiro's Favelas 16. Modern Warfare and Theorization of the Middle Eastern
City 17. Reading Thai Community: Reformation and Fragmentation 18. Urban
Political Ecology in the Global South: Everyday Environmental Struggles of
Home in Managua, Nicaragua 19. Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through
an Architecture of Words 20. Afterword: A World of Cities