South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations

ISBN-13: 9780815396840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 258 str.

Kerry Bystrom; Ashleigh Harris; Andrew J. Webber

Opis

This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the volume interrogate the modes of production that make up the fabric of urban spaces and the lives of their inhabitants. They also rethink practices that engender ‘cityness’ in diverse but increasingly interlinked conglomerations.　

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, city studies, development studies, global South studies, urban geography, built environment and literature.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Detachment Down South: On Salvage Operations and City-making   3. The Agency of Materials and the Future of Politics in the Shanty-town of the Global South   4. Ideological Disorientation and Urban Struggle in Postwar Luanda: Notes on Neto’s Mausoleum   5. Gentrification in Rio: Multiple Trajectories and Narratives in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas after ‘Pacification’ Policies  6. Village Delhi  7. The University, the Novel Form, Literary Life and the Urban Global South  8. Terminal City: Immaterial Migrations, Virtual Detachments and the North–South Divide (Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer, 2008)  9. Postcolonial Dandies and the Death of the Flâneur  10. Globalized Parisian Spaces: Disability and Mobility in The Untouchables (2011)  11. A Sense of Disorder: Orientation and Migration in the ‘New’ West  12. Dark Truths in East German Towns in Times of Islamophobia  13. Entanglements and Dispersals: Occidental Power and the Vicissitudes of Displacement