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Author:   Jonathan Darling ,  Helen F. Wilson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781472432575

ISBN 10:   1472432576
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   11 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. 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)

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’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 Information

Jonathan Darling is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, he is an urban and political geographer. Helen F. Wilson is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, she is a social and cultural geographer.

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