Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants

by Hans-Christian Petersen (Editor)

Overview

What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the "exoticization of the ghetto" (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837624731
Publication date:	09/27/2013
Series:	Mainz Historical Cultural Sciences , #17
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Hans-Christian Petersen (Dr.) teaches East European History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His research interests are Urban History and Social Space, History of Science and History of Antisemitism.

Table of Contents

Introduction Hans-Christian Petersen 17

A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto Loic Wacquant 15

The Subalterns Speak Out: Urban Plebeian Society in Late Imperial Russia Ilya V. Gerasimov 47

"… not intended for the Rich": Public Places as Points of Identification for the Urban Poor - St. Petersburg (1850-1914) Hans-Christian Petersen 71

Blood in the Air: Everyday Violence in the Experience of the Petersburg Poor, 1905-1917 Mark D. Steinberg 97

Outcast Vienna 1900: The Politics of Transgression Wolfgang Maderthaner 121

Revisiting Campbell Bunk Jerry White 135

Creating the City of Delhi: Stories of Strong Women and Weak Walls Sonja Wengoborski/Jaspal Naveel Singh 147

Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks Hauke Jan Rolf 169

Urban Poverty and Gentrification: A Comparative View on Different Areas in Hamburg Ingrid Breckner 193

Europe's only Megacity: Urban Growth, Migration and Gentrification in 21^st Century Moscow Julia Röttjer Jan Kusber 209

Contributors 237