Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2013

Spaces of the Poor

Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants

Edited by: Hans-Christian Petersen
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection

Volume 17 in the series Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839424735

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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.

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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.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
lntroduction Hans-Christian Petersen Open Access Download PDF	7
A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto Loïc Acquant Open Access Download PDF	15
The Subalterns Speak Out Urban Plebeian Society in Late Imperial Russia Ilya V. Gerasimov Open Access Download PDF	47
“... not intended for the Rich“ Public Places as Points of ldentification for the Urban Poor- St. Petersburg (1850-1914) Hans-Christian Petersen Open Access Download PDF	71
Blood in the Air Everyday Violence in the Experience of the Petersburg Poor, 1905-1917 Mark D. Steinberg Open Access Download PDF	97
Outcast Vienna 1900 The Politics of Transgression Wolfgang Maderthaner Open Access Download PDF	121
Revisiting Campbell Bunk Jerry White Open Access Download PDF	135
Creating the City of Delhi Stories of Strong Women and Weak Walls Sonja Wengoborski and Jaspal Naveel Singh Open Access Download PDF	147
Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks Hauke Jan Rolf Open Access Download PDF	169
Urban Poverty and Gentrification A Comparative View on Different Areas in Harnburg Ingrid Breckner Open Access Download PDF	193
Europe’s only Megacity Urban Growth, Migration and Gentrification in 21^st Century Moscow Julia Röttjer and Jan Kusber Open Access Download PDF	209
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	237

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Slum; Poverty; Space; Culture; Urbanity; Social Inequality; Urban Studies; Social History; Sociology

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Published: April 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839424735