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OverviewEncountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-human geographies, soundscapes and spiritual experience, Encountering the City argues for a more nuanced understanding of how the concept of 'encounter' is used. This interdisciplinary collection thus provides an insight into how scholars' writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. These cases go beyond conventional accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how encounters destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together complex temporalities, materialise power and transform political relations. In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the forms of regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking place of urban encounter. Encountering the City is a valuable resource for students and researchers alike. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Darling , Helen F. WilsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138546707ISBN 10: 1138546704 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 12 February 2018 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. The Possibilities of Encounter (Helen F. Wilson and Jonathan Darling) 2. Mobilising Sentiment for Multiplicity (Amanda Wise) 3. From Urban Talent to Commodity City: Encountering Marketplaces in the Informal Economy (Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer) 4. Transspecies Urban Theory: Chickens in an African City (Alice Hovorka) 5. Atmospheric Politics and Entangled Encounters: Freedom Square in Tallinn (Tarmo Pikner) 6. On the Politics of Vision and Touch: Encountering Fearful and Fearsome Bodies in Cape Town, South Africa (Nick Schuermans) 7. Encountering Keighley: More-than-Human Geographies of Difference in a Former Mill Town (Dan Swanton) 8. Encountering Religion through Accra’s Urban Soundscape (Marleen de Witte) 9. Art Tactics and Urban Improvisation (Mick O’Kelly) 10. Working across Class Difference in Popular Assemblies in Buenos Aires (Mónica Farías) 11. Encountering Suspicion: Preemptive Security and the Urban Field of Suspects (Stephanie Simon) 12. Encountering Havana: Texts, Aesthetics and Documentary Encounters (Helen F. Wilson) 13. Deadly and Lively Encounters (Jeffrey Hou) 14. Encountering what is (not) there (Colin McFarlane)Reviews'A lively and theoretically insightful collection, with evocative case examples from cities in many corners of the world. If you are interested in a demonstration of how you might use the fashionable concept of encounter to illuminate contemporary urban living, and in knowing what the concept might help you do and what it may not, then this book is a wonderful resource. I especially liked the emphasis on the temporalities that are part of encounters in particular contexts - the way in which elements of the past combine with imaginings of the future to form engagements in the present. Enjoy!' Ruth Fincher, University of Melbourne, Australia ’A lively and theoretically insightful collection, with evocative case examples from cities in many corners of the world. If you are interested in a demonstration of how you might use the fashionable concept of encounter to illuminate contemporary urban living, and in knowing what the concept might help you do and what it may not, then this book is a wonderful resource. I especially liked the emphasis on the temporalities that are part of encounters in particular contexts - the way in which elements of the past combine with imaginings of the future to form engagements in the present. Enjoy!’ Ruth Fincher, University of Melbourne, Australia Author InformationJonathan Darling is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK, he is an urban and political geographer. Helen F. Wilson is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK, she is a social and cultural geographer. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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