Spaces of the Poor
Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
lntroduction
Seiten 7 - 14 -
A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure
Seiten 15 - 46 -
The Subalterns Speak Out
Seiten 47 - 70 -
"... not intended for the Rich"
Seiten 71 - 96 -
Blood in the Air
Seiten 97 - 120 -
Outcast Vienna 1900
Seiten 121 - 134 -
Revisiting Campbell Bunk
Seiten 135 - 146 -
Creating the City of Delhi
Seiten 147 - 168 -
Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks
Seiten 169 - 192 -
Urban Poverty and Gentrification
Seiten 193 - 208 -
Europe's only Megacity
Seiten 209 - 236 -
Contributors
Seiten 237 - 240
24 September 2013, 240 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2473-1
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