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Author:   Petra Kuppinger
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9783030843786

ISBN 10:   3030843785
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   21 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Introduction.- I. MIGRANTS, PLACE-MAKING, AND CLAIMS TO THE CITY.- Chapter 1. Peripheral Citizenship: Immigration and City-Making in Santiago, Chile.- Chapter 2. Spaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America.- Chapter 3. Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile.- Chapter 4. The Free Trade Zone and the Ethnic Restaurant: South Asian Emergent Space in a Chilean City of Labor Migrants.- II. RELIGION, URBAN INNOVATION, AND URBAN SPIRITUAL GEOGRPAHIES.- Chapter 5. “God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Publics and Emergent Spaces in Shanghai, China.- Chapter 6. The Good Tree Institute (GTI): Muslim Self-Making and Place-Making in Metropolitan Phoenix.- Chapter 7. Building Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and Women in Islamabad, Pakistan.- III. POPULAR CULTURE, LIFESTYLES, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND INFRASTRUCTURES.- Chapter 8. $5 Gets you Soup, Bread and a Vote: Microgranting Dinners for Transforming Detroit.- Chapter 9. Belonging through Bohemia: Maintaining Queer Space and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil.- Chapter 10. Sustainability, Green Businesses and Alternative Economies in Stuttgart, Germany.- Chapter 11. ""Punk rock DIY belly feeding”: ephemerality in authentic space-making in Barcelona and Vancouver.- Chapter 12. You Can’t Fight City Hall? Philadelphia’s Advocates for the Homeless and Community Activists Engage in the Battle of Love Park.- Chapter 13. Never-ending Beginnings: Spaces of Infrastructural Labor in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements.- Conclusion."

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Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability. She is the author of Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City (Berghahn, 2015) and, together with George Gmelch, she is the co-editor of Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (6th ed., Waveland, 2018). 

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