Rebranding Precarity - Pop-up Culture as the Seductive New Normal

Pop-up'' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making, pop-up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas, container malls, supper clubs, even pop-up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes of the ''pop-up'' city?Traversing a wealth of fascinating case studies, shows how pop-up works to rebrand insecurity and encourages us to embrace precarity as the new normal. Revealing how urban crisis has particular temporal and spatial characteristics, defined by uncertainty, instability, fractures and gaps, it illuminates how those markers of crisis have been optimistically reimagined over the last few years, through an examination of seven logics that rebrand insecurity including within housing, labour economies and gentrifying areas. In doing so, it paints a frightening picture of how crisis conditions have become not just accepted, but are in fact desired, in today''s metropolis.>

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• Autori: Ella Harris, Ella (Birkbeck Harris, Harris Ella
• Editore: Zed Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781786999818
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-981-8
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Saggi / saggi illustrati > Diritto, economia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; London, Greater London, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Social Geography, Central London, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Volunteer Work, Poverty & unemployment, Political Geography, Sociology: work & labour, Urban communities, Consumerism, Sociology: work and labour, Poverty and precarity