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This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities. The transformations of capitalism on a global scale imply reconfigurations both in the way of planning and organizing cities, and in the ways of dwelling and feeling them. The generalization of the urban, the suburbanization of the metropolis, and classified and racializing segregation, just to mention some significant phenomena, not only introduce changes linked to the forms of consumption of the city and the land, the appropriation and privatization of collective places, the strategic revaluation of urban times / spaces, or the establishment of new centralities. They also involve changes in sensibilities, which translate into substantial transformations in the lives of people and groups that dwell in cities in the Global North and South. Based on various empirical records and methodological procedures, the chapters included in this book establish a fertile dialoguebetween collaborators from different geocultural contexts that locate urban experiences and sensibilities as a point of articulation to address the processes of social structuring on a global scale.
List of contents
1.Cities and Emotions.- 2. The Ephemeral and The Metropolis. A Study on a Philosophical Idea from Romantic Aesthetic to Media Theory.- 3.Plasticity of Bodies/Emotions in the City: Socialization Places, Embodying Social Relations.- 4.Emotive Culture and Belonging: Sensibilities, Fears and Moralities in an Urban Context.- 5.Urban Foodscapes and Media Horizons. A New Gastronomic Experience.- 6.Perry - Deep Mapping and Emotion in Place-Writing Practice.- 7.(In)Sensibilities to the Vigilance of Others in the City.- 8."We Were Never Informal Ones". Aymara Qamiris and Independent Work in the Cities of Peruvian-Bolivian High Andean Plateau.- 9.Exploring the Politics of Sensibilities that Promote Marriage and Reproduction among Young Chinese Adults Residing in Urban Areas.- 10.City and Sensibilities: The Dynamics of Racializing Segregation.- 11.Gated Communities and Dormitory Towns: Between (Dis)trust and (In)security.- 12.Urban Spaces of Fear and Disillusionment.- 13.Cities, COVID-19 andSensibilities. A Kaleidoscope of Experiences.
About the author
Adrián Scribano is Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Studies, and Principal Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina.
Margarita Camarena Luhrs is Research at the Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Ana Lucia Cervio is Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina.
