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City Publics - The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (Hardcover)
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City Publics - The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (Hardcover)
Series: Questioning Cities
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Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled
sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations
moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm
and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than
previously received. Concerned with the borders and boundaries,
constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating
difference in public, Sophie Watson, through ethnographic studies,
interrogates how difference is negotiated and performed. Focusing
on spaces where to outside observers tension is relatively absent
or invisible, Watson also reveals how the boundaries between the
public and private are being negotiated and redrawn, and how public
and private spaces are mutually constitutive. Through her
investigation of the more ordinary and less dramatic forms of
encounter and contestation in the city, Watson is able to conceive
an urban public realm and urban public space that is heterogeneous
and potentially progressive. With numerous photographs and drawings
City Publics not only throws new light on encounters with others in
public space, but also destabilizes dominant, sometimes simplistic,
universalized accounts and helps us re-imagine urban public space
as a site of potentiality, difference, and enchanted encounters.
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