Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality - Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues

This book explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested.

Sommario

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality, Tom Slater

Part 1: Conceptual Terrains

2. An Explanatory or Mystifying Concept? The Use Value of Gentrification Theory, Edwar Calderon, Neil Gray, Hamish Kallin, and Ebru Soytemel

3. Oscillations in Housing Policy: Comparative Urbanism Across Delhi and Rio de Janeiro, Héctor Becerril Miranda and Kavita Ramakrishnan

4. The Calais Jungle: A City In-between Urban Worlds, Oli Mould

Part 2: Everyday Marginalities

5. Contrasting 'Ghetto' Pride: A Comparison of the Sense of Belonging for People who Live Outside of their Local Neighbourhoods: London and Mexico City, César Rebolledo and Joy White

6. Music Neotribes: Moving from the Margins, Catherine Wilkinson and Joseline Vega

7. Popular Religiosity and Struggles for Urban Justice in Mexico: A Decolonial Analysis of Santa Muerte, Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn

Part 3: Marginality by Design and Designing out Marginality

8. Cultural Marginality and Urban Place

Info autore

Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Tom Slater is Reader in Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

Riassunto

This book explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julie Slater Cupples
• Con la collaborazione di: Julie Cupples (Editore), Cupples Julie (Editore), Tom Slater (Editore), Slater Tom (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786606402
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-640-2
• Pagine: 246
• Serie: Transforming Capitalism
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America