Urban Curating - Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary neoliberalism? Accelerated developments heighten classed, gendered, and radicalized urban injustices.
Addressing these issues, Urban Curating is concerned with the interconnectedness of economy, ecology, and labor in urban history as well as practices of remembrance. Drawing on the author's work as an urban curator in cities such as Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Vienna, the focus is on caring repair, refusal, and resistance - fighting the spatialization of injustice by building feminist solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries.

About the author

Elke Krasny ist Professorin für Kunst und Bildung an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.

Summary

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary neoliberalism? Accelerated developments heighten classed, gendered, and radicalized urban injustices.Addressing these issues, Urban Curating is concerned with the interconnectedness of economy, ecology, and labor in urban history as well as practices of remembrance. Drawing on the author's work as an urban curator in cities such as Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Vienna, the focus is on caring repair, refusal, and resistance – fighting the spatialization of injustice by building feminist solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries.

Product details

• Authors: Elke Krasny
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.05.2026
• EAN: 9783837638486
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3848-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 393 g
• Illustrations: 65 SW-Abb.
• Series: Urban Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Urban and regional sociology; Soziologie, Verstehen, Kulturwissenschaften, City, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, art, Architecture, Space, Culture, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Humangeographie, Fine Arts, Urban Studies, Cultural Theory, Curating, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, The arts, Communities, Activism, Urbanism, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology and anthropology, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government), History, geographic treatment, biography, Philosophy and theory of fine and decorative arts