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This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.
List of contents
'1. Thinking from the East: Urban marginality, racialisation and interdependence in Eastern Europe. Part 1. Racialisation and the production of the urban margins. 2. Dispossessed, segregated, exploited: On racialised residential capitalism in postsocialist Czechia. 3. Urbanization of racial capitalism in Serbia: Transition, racialisation, evictions. 4. From social housing to evictions: State-led displacement and the urban poor in Bucharest. 5. Maintaining marginality: A genealogy of security mechanisms against Roma in Baia Mare. Part 2. Mobilities and the shifting urban margins. 6. Human capital and digital citizenship: Postsocialism's urban dispossessions. 7. Locked in permanent temporariness: Internally displaced persons in Serbia. 8. The Russian minority in the Baltic capitals: Examining marginalisation in the context of urban dynamics. Part 3. Enduring and countering urban marginality. 9. Depoliticised urban commons: Romania's perpetuating slum formations, deepening housing struggles, and political disinterest. 10. Doing and undoing communities: Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest. 11. Between transformation and marginality: Urban life and socially engaged art at the fringe of Prishtina. 12. Infrastructures of marginality in a city with "war on the horizon": Insights from Lyman, Ukraine. Part 4. Race, post-socialism and the city: Reflections and new horizons. 13. Roma ghettos within the abyss of European modernity: Technologies of control and emancipatory horizons. 15. Post-socialist racial geographies studies.
About the author
Filip Alexandrescu is a Senior Researcher (2nd degree) at the Research Institute for Quality of Life in Bucharest, Romania.
Ryan Powell is Professor of Urban Studies in the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Ana Vilenica is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the ERC project 'Inhabiting Radical Housing' at the Polytechnic and University of Turin's Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) and a core member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab.
Summary
This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.
