Name: Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York
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Author: Darling, Jonathan ; Wilson, Helen F.
ISBN: 9781472432575

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Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York

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Physical Book

Publisher

Routledge

Author

Darling, Jonathan ; Wilson, Helen F.

Language

English

Pages

252

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781472432575

Synopsis "Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York"

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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