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The City as Power
Urban Space, Place, and National Identity
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About this book
This interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces.
By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops, urban spaces and places are active mediums for defining categories of inclusionāand exclusion. With an international scope and ready appeal to visual learners, the book offers a compelling survey of historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals, express counter-narratives, and negotiate global trends in cities. The contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to mirror their respective socio-political agendas, perspectives on history, and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the legal, ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich diversity of urban space, place, and national identity, the book compares core elements of identity projects in a range of political, cultural, and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the built form and urban settings for social movements, protest, and even organized violence, this timely book demonstrates that cities are not simply lived in but also lived through.
By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops, urban spaces and places are active mediums for defining categories of inclusionāand exclusion. With an international scope and ready appeal to visual learners, the book offers a compelling survey of historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals, express counter-narratives, and negotiate global trends in cities. The contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to mirror their respective socio-political agendas, perspectives on history, and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the legal, ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich diversity of urban space, place, and national identity, the book compares core elements of identity projects in a range of political, cultural, and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the built form and urban settings for social movements, protest, and even organized violence, this timely book demonstrates that cities are not simply lived in but also lived through.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The City as Palimpsest
- Part I: Remembering and Forgetting
- Chapter 2: Creating a Place for the Nation in Dublin
- Chapter 3: Making a Wrong Turn in Tokyo
- Chapter 4: The City, Memory, and Ideology in Ulaanbaatar
- Chapter 5: Ankaraās Forest Farm and the Turkish Nation
- Chapter 6: A Usable Past in Tashkent
- Part II: āOtherā Identities and Counternarratives
- Chapter 7: Remembering Rio
- Chapter 8: The Cityscapes of Lusaka and Mongu
- Chapter 9: Rewriting the National Past in Contemporary Budapest
- Chapter 10: Urban National Politics in the United States
- Chapter 11: From Precolonial to Postcolonial African Cities
- Part III: National Identity amid Globalization
- Chapter 12: National Day Celebrations in Doha and Abu Dhabi
- Chapter 13: With or without Chinese Characteristics in Beijing, Wuhan, and Shenzhen
- Chapter 14: From āRuralā to āUrbanā India
- Chapter 15: Ethno- and Religio-nationalism in Putrajaya, Taman Tamadun Islam, and Kota Iskandar
- Chapter 16: The City as Crucible
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors