Urban Ethics as Research Agenda

Outlooks and Tensions on Multidisciplinary Debates

Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon M. Winder, Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon M. Winder, Gordon Winder, Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon Winder

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000933864
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities.

Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens the lens to include other actors apart from powerful individuals or institutions, paying special attention to activists or civil society organizations that express concerns about collective life. The chapters provide fresh perspectives addressing the various scales that converge in the urban. The uniqueness of each city is, thus, enriched with global patterns of the urban. Local sociocultural characteristics coexist with global flows of ideas, goods and people. The focus on urban ethics sheds light on emerging spaces of human development and the ways in which ethical narratives are used to mobilize and contest them in terms of the good life.

This timely book analyses urban ethical negotiations from social and cultural studies, particularly drawing on anthropology, geography and history. This volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers and practitioners interested in ethics and urban studies.

Licence line: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction: Researching urban ethics at the dawn of the urban century
• 1 Urban sovereignty in a time of crisis: Territorialities of governance and the ethics of care
• 2 Urban mobility governance flows: Ethical bases of political becomings
• 3 The political ecology of a diverse urban ethics of marine stewardship in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
• 4 Conflictual planning in the Olympic City: Vila Autódromo’s experience, Rio de Janeiro
• 5 The transformation of the ‘Valongo Complex’: New perspectives on the historic port area of Rio de Janeiro
• 6 Restorative justice in Georgia: On the limited recognition of prostitution in Tbilisi 1991–2020
• 7 Traversing troubled waters: Emergent ethics and pandemic politics
• 8 On the impossibility of collaboration: Solidarity, power and loneliness in feminist, workerist and (urban) ethnographic methodology
• 9 Voluntary mentoring: Relationship-building as an urban-ethical practice in Munich
• 10 Sacks and the city: Secondary burials in Naples and New York
• 11 Producing community: An ‘ethopolitics’ of Berlin’s crisis-driven urban restructuring
• Conclusion: Urban ethics as research agenda
• Index