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Urban Social Capital - Civil Society and City Life (Paperback)
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Urban Social Capital - Civil Society and City Life (Paperback)
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This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of
contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of
social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu. It brings
together studies from highly diverse urban settings, such as
squatter re-settlement projects in Kathmandu, urban funeral
societies in Africa, an HIV/AIDS community in Los Angeles, the poor
of Harare, pensioners in Shanghai, Maori gangs in Auckland, and a
Roma boxing club in Prague, among others. Contributors draw on
contemporary theory and research in social capital, political
economy, urban planning and policy, social movements, civil society
and democracy to explore how social norms, networks, connections
and ties are created, deployed - and often frayed - under
conditions of social complexity, inequality, cultural pluralism,
and the ethno-racial diversity and division characteristic of urban
contexts throughout the world. In this way, the volume engages in a
genuinely globalized - and globalizing - discussion of contemporary
urban social life and stands as a unique and timely
interdisciplinary contribution to the ever-expanding literature
devoted to social capital.
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