Urban Ethics (eBook, PDF)

Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
Redaktion: Ege, Moritz; Moser, Johannes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a 'good' life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and 'good' prevail? What is the connection between the 'good' and the 'just' in urban life?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000175684
• Artikelnr.: 59936878

Autorenporträt

Moritz Ege is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen with a research focus on popular culture studies, urban ethnography, conjunctural analysis, and historical anthropology. Johannes Moser is chair of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Munich University. His research interests include urban anthropology, everyday culture and community studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Configurations of Ethics and the Urban - Concepts and Theories 1. Introduction: Urban Ethics - Conflicts over the Good and Proper Life in Cities 2. The Habitat of the Subject: Exploring New Forms of the Ethical Imagination 3. The City as a Setting for Collaboration? Tracking the Multiple Scales of Urban Promises Part 2: Shifting Ethics of the Urban: Historical Case Studies 4. Mégapoles, Polyrhythmy, Porosity: Tracing Ideas of Mediterranean Urbanity in Western ScholarlyDdiscourse 5. Urbanity as an Ethic: Reflections on the Cities of the Arab World 6. The Fractious Stability of an Immoral Landscape: The Land Walls of Istanbul, 1910 to 1980 7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bucharest's Urban Core as a Moral Playground 8. 1968 and Beyond. The Urban Struggle on Trial? Part 3: Building and Living Ethically - Conflicts over Housing and Architecture 9. Shaping Urban Ethics. The 'Making-of' a Collective Housing Project at Berlin's River Spree 10. Commitment - City - Self. Ethical Self-formations in Munich's Young Housing Cooperatives 11. Antagonisms and Solidarities in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest 12. Ethical Contestation in Architecture for a Creative Singapore Part 4: Environmental Justice, Ethics of Care and the Spectacle of Urban Sustainability 13. Reimagining Urban Environmentalisms: A Comparative Framework 14. Handling Waste through Consensus, Care and Community in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Part 5: Protest between Ethics and Politics: Collective Agents of Urban Change 15. Keep the City Clean. The Ambivalent Ethics of Ownership in Urban Routine and Non-Violent Protest in Moscow 16. Guardians of Torfjanka Park: The Fight for "Our Moscow" and the Understanding of "Ordinary People" in the Current Conjuncture 17. "They are stealing the state": Commoning and the Gilets Jaunes in France