Post-Cosmopolitan Cities : Explorations of Urban Coexistence.
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalize...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2012
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| Series: | Space and place.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; acknowledgments; Introduction
- Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja; Chapter 1
- Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City; Chapter 2
- Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa; Chapter 3
- At the City's Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa; Chapter 4
- 'A Gate, but Leading Where?' In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi; Chapter 5
- Cosmopolitan Architecture: 'Deviations' from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-First-Century Warsaw.
- Chapter 6
- Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice chapter 7
- Haunted by the Past and the Ambivalences of the Present: Immigration and Thessalonica's Second Path to Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 8
- 'For Badakhshan
- the Country without Borders!': Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan Tajikistan; notes on contributors; INDEX.
