The emancipatory city? : paradoxes and possibilities / edited by Loretta Lees
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- 3296719
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- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004
- x, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0761973869
- 0761973877
- Summary:
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"Much of the literature on the city has focused on the city as a possible utopia. However, as this work demonstrates, cities are ambiguous sites of expression, emancipation, democracy, justice, and citizenship. The Emancipatory City? interrogates ideas from the writings of Marx, Simmel, Benjamin, Foucault, Lefebvre and de Certeau through an audit of the modern to the postmodern city as a space of flows, networks and intricacies." "With contributions from key theorists and reflections from David Harvey, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, this book offers a critical examination of the city that integrates theory with illustrative, empirical examples. It will be a key resource for students and researchers in Urban Studies and Urban Geography."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: About the contributors vii
- List of figures xi
- Preface xii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- 1 The Emancipatory City: Urban (Re)Visions 3
- Loretta Lees
- PART 1 CITIES OF (IN)DIFFERENCE 21
- 2 Domesticating Monsters: Cartographies of Difference
- and the Emancipatory City 23
- Susan Ruddick
- 3 Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance,
- ' Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City : 40
- Nicholas Fyfe
- 4 Impurity and the Emancipatory City: Young People,
- Community Safety and Racial Danger 57
- Les Back and Michael Keith
- 5 The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and
- Collective Action in Cities 72
- James DeFilippis and Peter North
- PART 2 EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES 89
- 6 Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces
- of Reclaim the Streets 91
- Gavin Brown
- 7 Inventing New Games: Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space 108
- David Pinder
- 8 Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City 123
- Gary Bridge
- 9 Urban Escapades: Play in Melbourne's Public Spaces 139
- Quentin Stevens
- PART 3 UTOPIC TRAJECTORIES 159
- 10 The Urban Basis of Emancipation: Spatial Theory and the
- City in South African Politics 161
- Jennifer Robinson
- 11 Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism 178
- Matthew Gandy
- 12 In Search of the Horizon: Utopia in The Truman
- Show and The Matrix I 192
- Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan
- 13 Ghosts and the City of Hope 210
- Steve Pile
- REFLECTIONS 229
- 14 The 'Emancipatory' City? 231
- Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Cities and towns
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lees, Loretta
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