Negotiating urban conflicts : : interaction, space, and control / / Helmuth Berking [and six others], editors.

• Superior document: Materialitäten ; Volume 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Berking, Helmuth,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Transcript,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Materialitäten ; Volume 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308)
• Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 7-9, 2005 at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts 9 Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques 15 Contested Places and the Politics of Space 29 The City as Assemblage. Diasporic Cultures, Postmodern Spaces, and Biopolitics 41 Remapping the Geopolitics of Terror: Uncanny Urban Spaces in Singapore 53 Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory, and the Loss of Secular Urban Space 67 The Politics and Poetics of Religion: Hindu Processions and Urban Conflicts 85 Negotiating the City-Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo 99 Negotiating Public Spaces: The Right to the Gendered City and the Right to Difference 113 On the Road to Being White: The Construction of Whiteness in the Everyday Life of Expatriate German High Flyers in Singapore and London 125 Prostitution-Power Relations between Space and Gender 139 Between Refeudalization and New Cultural Politics: The 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg 155 Reflections on a Cartography of the Non-Visible. Urban Experience and the Internet 167 Picturing Urban Identities 177 Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 195 Earthquake Recovery and Historic Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts 209 The Phenomenon of Exclusion 227 Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time 235 Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques 247 Violence Prevention in a South African Township 261 Homeland/Target: Cities and the "War on Terror" 277 Terrorism and the Right to the Secure City: Safety vs. Security in Public Spaces 289 Authors 305