Post-cosmopolitan Cities : : Explorations of Urban Coexistence / / ed. by Caroline Humphrey, Vera Skvirskaja.
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalize...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Space and Place ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City
- Chapter 2 Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa
- Chapter 3 At the City’s Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa
- Chapter 4 ‘A Gate, but Leading Where?’ In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi
- Chapter 5 Cosmopolitan Architecture: ‘Deviations’ from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-First-Century Warsaw
- Chapter 6 Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice
- Chapter 7 Haunted by the Past and the Ambivalences of the Present: Immigration and Thessalonica’s Second Path to Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 8 ‘For Badakhshan – the Country without Borders!’: Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan City in Tajikistan
- Notes on contributors
- INDEX