Encountering the City
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Encountering the City

Urban Encounters from Accra to New York

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Encountering the City

Urban Encounters from Accra to New York

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 The Possibilities of Encounter
  10. 2 Mobilising Sentiment for Multiplicity
  11. 3 From Urban Talent to Commodity City: Encountering Marketplaces in the Informal Economy
  12. 4 Transspecies Urban Theory: Chickens in an African City
  13. 5 Atmospheric Politics and Entangled Encounters: Freedom Square in Tallinn
  14. 6 On the Politics of Vision and Touch: Encountering Fearful and Fearsome Bodies in Cape Town, South Africa
  15. 7 Encountering Keighley: More-than-Human Geographies of Difference in a Former Mill Town
  16. 8 Encountering Religion through Accra's Urban Soundscape
  17. 9 Art Tactics and Urban Improvisation
  18. 10 Working Across Class Difference in Popular Assemblies in Buenos Aires
  19. 11 Encountering Suspicion: Preemptive Security and the Urban Field of Suspects
  20. 12 Encountering Havana: Texts, Aesthetics and Documentary Encounters
  21. 13 Deadly and Lively Encounters
  22. 14 Encountering What Is (Not) There
  23. Index