Overview
- Explores emergent spaces from multiple perspectives, including those of migrants, minorities, and the marginalized
- Demonstrates how even the smallest urban spaces can foster urban change, transformation, creativity, and resilience
- Covers perspectives across four continents, illustrating how diverse urbanities use surprisingly similar methods
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (PSUA)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Migrants, Place-Making, and Claims to the City
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Religion, Urban Innovation, and Urban Spiritual Geographies
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Popular Culture, Lifestyles, Social Activism, and Infrastructures
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About this book
This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability. She is the author of Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City (Berghahn, 2015) and, together with George Gmelch, she is the co-editor of Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (6th ed., Waveland, 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emergent Spaces
Book Subtitle: Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces
Editors: Petra Kuppinger
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84379-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84378-6Published: 21 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84381-6Published: 22 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84379-3Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-2436
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2444
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 282
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Anthropology, Social Sciences, general, Urban Studies/Sociology