Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants / Hans-Christian Petersen (ed.)
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld [Germany] :
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[2013]
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| Series: | Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ;
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Table of Contents:
- A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure : A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto / Loïc Wacquant
- The Subalterns Speak Out : Urban Plebeian Society in Late Imperial Russia / Ilya V. Gerasimov
- " ... not intended for the Rich" : Public Places as Points of Identification for the Urban Poor, St. Petersburg (1850-1914) / Hans-Christian Petersen
- Blood in the Air : Everyday Violence in the Experience of the Petersburg Poor, 1905-1917 / Mark D. Steinberg
- Outcast Vienna 1900 : The Politics of Transgression / Wolfgang Maderthaner
- Revisiting Campbell Bunk / Jerry White
- Creating the City of Delhi : Stories of Strong Women and Weak Walls / Sonja Wengoborski, Jaspal Naveel Singh
- Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks / Hauke Jan Rolf
- Urban Poverty and Gentrification : A Comparative View on Different Areas in Hamburg / Ingrid Breckner
- Europe's only Megacity : Urban Growth, Migration and Gentrification in 21st Century Moscow / Julia Rötijer, Jan Kusber.