Emergent Spaces

Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces

AvPetra Kuppinger

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

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This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-22
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030843816

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Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability. She is the author of Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City (Berghahn, 2015) and, together with George Gmelch, she is the co-editor of Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (6th ed., Waveland, 2018).

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Introduction.- I. MIGRANTS, PLACE-MAKING, AND CLAIMS TO THE CITY.- Chapter 1. Peripheral Citizenship: Immigration and City-Making in Santiago, Chile.- Chapter 2. Spaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America.- Chapter 3. Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile.- Chapter 4. The Free Trade Zone and the Ethnic Restaurant: South Asian Emergent Space in a Chilean City of Labor Migrants.- II. RELIGION, URBAN INNOVATION, AND URBAN SPIRITUAL GEOGRPAHIES.- Chapter 5. “God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Publics and Emergent Spaces in Shanghai, China.- Chapter 6. The Good Tree Institute (GTI): Muslim Self-Making and Place-Making in Metropolitan Phoenix.- Chapter 7. Building Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and Women in Islamabad, Pakistan.- III. POPULAR CULTURE, LIFESTYLES, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND INFRASTRUCTURES.- Chapter 8. $5 Gets you Soup, Bread and a Vote: Microgranting Dinners for Transforming Detroit.- Chapter 9. Belonging through Bohemia: Maintaining Queer Space and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil.- Chapter 10. Sustainability, Green Businesses and Alternative Economies in Stuttgart, Germany.- Chapter 11. "Punk rock DIY belly feeding”: ephemerality in authentic space-making in Barcelona and Vancouver.- Chapter 12. You Can’t Fight City Hall? Philadelphia’s Advocates for the Homeless and Community Activists Engage in the Battle of Love Park.- Chapter 13. Never-ending Beginnings: Spaces of Infrastructural Labor in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements.- Conclusion.