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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Petersen, Hans-Christian[Herausgeber]
• Petersen, Hans-Christian,

Titel

Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants

Ist Teil von

• Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften : 17

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2013]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• International conference proceedings.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• 1 Contents 5 lntroduction 7 A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure 15 The Subalterns Speak Out 47 "... not intended for the Rich" 71 Blood in the Air 97 Outcast Vienna 1900 121 Revisiting Campbell Bunk 135 Creating the City of Delhi 147 Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks 169 Urban Poverty and Gentrification 193 Europe's only Megacity 209 Contributors 237
• What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the »exoticization of the ghetto« (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.
• funded by Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license:
• Hans-Christian Petersen (Dr.) teaches East European History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His research interests are Urban History and Social Space, History of Science and History of Antisemitism.
• English
• Description based on print version record.