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Encountering the City - Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (Paperback)
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Encountering the City - Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (Paperback)
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Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with
the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work,
classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this
volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban
studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing
together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of
economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-human
geographies, soundscapes and spiritual experience, Encountering the
City argues for a more nuanced understanding of how the concept of
'encounter' is used. This interdisciplinary collection thus
provides an insight into how scholars' writing on and in the city
mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through
empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North
America and South America. These cases go beyond conventional
accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how encounters
destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together complex
temporalities, materialise power and transform political relations.
In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the forms of
regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking place
of urban encounter. Encountering the City is a valuable resource
for students and researchers alike.
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