Wounded Cities (eBook, PDF)

Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World
Redaktion: Schneider, Jane; Susser, Ida

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000184839
• Artikelnr.: 59756083

Autorenporträt

Jane Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York. Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Wounded Cities:
Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World 2 The City as a Body
Politic Part I The Degradation of Urban Life 3 The Depreciation of Life
During Mexico City's Transition into "the Crisis" 4 International Commodity
Markets, Local Land Markets and Class Conflict in a Provincial Mexican 5
Rethinking Infrastructure: Siberian Cities and the Great Freeze of January
2001 Part II Crises of Crime and Criminalization 6 How Kingston was
Wounded, 7 Wounded Medellin: Narcotics Traffic against a Background of
Industrial Decline 8 Global Justice in the Postindustrial City: Urban
Activism Beyond the Global-local Split 9 After Drugs and the "War on
Drugs": Reclaiming the Power to Make History in Harlem, New York Part III
Rapid, Inconsistent Expansion 10 Bangkok, The Bubble City 11 Contemporary
Ho Chi Minh City in Numerous Contradictions: Reform Policy, Foreign Capital
and the Working Class Part IV Reconstruction and Recovery 12 Belfast: Urban
Space, "Policing" and Sectarian Polarization 13 "Healing the Wounds of the
War": Placing the War-displaced in Postwar Beirut 14 Wounded Palermo