Understanding the City Through Its Margins - Pluridisciplinary Perspectives From Case Studies in Africa, Asia

List of contents

1. The City and its Regulations: Unexpected Margins, André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi Part I: Space and State Regulation: The Urban Interstices 2. Markets and Marginality in Beirut, Frank Mermier 3. The Tremendous Making and Unmaking of the Peripheries in Current Istanbul, Jean-François Pérouse 4. Paradoxical Forms of Urbanity on the Margins? The Kherba: a Vivid Market in a Damaged Section of the Medina of Tunis, Nora Lafi 5. Whose Margins? Marginality, Poverty and the Moral Geography of Pre-Soviet Bukhara, Jeanine Dağyeli 6. On the Margins of the City: Izmir Prison in the Late Ottoman Empire, Ufuk Adak Part II: Diversity and Moral Policing: Making Claims through Marginalization 7.‘Texas’: An Off-Centre District at the Heart of Nightlife in Odienné, André Chappatte 8. The Manyema of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) between Urban Margins and Regional Connections, Katharina Zöller 9. On the Margins: Suburban Space and Religious Deviancy in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, Saskia Schäfer 10. Ethnic Differentiation and Conflict Dynamics: Uzbeks Marginalization and Non-Marginalization in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Aksana Ismailbekova and Baktygul Karimova

About the author

André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi are all at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.

Summary

In this book the margins are, first, the mirrors of the city and, second, a fundamental route through which various centers can legitimate and sustain their power. Contemporary case studies are compared to a number of those from history with the accent on Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Andre (Zentrum Moderner Orient Chappatte, Ulrike Lafi Freitag
• Assisted by: André Chappatte (Editor), Ulrike Freitag (Editor), Freitag Ulrike (Editor), Nora Lafi (Editor), Lafi Nora (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367348670
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34867-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Africa / West, Middle East, Regional / International studies, Asian History, African History, Urban communities, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history