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Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York

Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York

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General SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1472432576
ISBN13: 9781472432575
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 11 2016
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically, it provides an insight into how scholars writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. These cases go beyond conventional accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how encounters destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together complex temporalities, materialise power and transform political relations. In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the forms of regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking place of urban encounter.

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