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Informationen zum Autor Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK. Klappentext Concerned with the borders and boundaries! constraints and limits on accepting! acknowledging and celebrating difference in public! this book interrogates how difference is negotiated and performed. It helps us re-imagine urban public space as a site of potentiality! difference! and enchanted encounters. Zusammenfassung Through her investigation of the more ordinary and less dramatic forms of encounter and contestation in the city, author Sophie Watson is able to conceive of an urban public realm and urban public space that is heterogeneous and potentially progressive. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction 2 Symbolic spaces of difference: contesting the eruv in Barnet, London, and Tenafly, New Jersey 3 Nostalgia at work: living with difference in a London street market 4 Risky space and money talks: the Hampstead ponds meet state regulation 5 Disrobing in public: embodied differences in bathing sites 6 Invisible subjects: encounter, desire and association amongst older people 7 Children’s publics 8 The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters: some concluding reflections Appendix : a summary of the primary research methods
