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Caroline Humphrey (Ed.) - Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence - 9781782386773 - V9781782386773
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Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence

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Description for Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence Paperback. 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 globalized tourism on urban sociality. Editor(s): Humphrey, Caroline; Skvirskaja, Vera. Series: Space and Place. Num Pages: 260 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.

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 globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people.

Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Space and Place
Condition
New
Weight
371g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782386773
SKU
V9781782386773
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Caroline Humphrey (Ed.)
Caroline Humphrey is a Research Director in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in the USSR/Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, and India. Her research interests include socialist and post-socialist society, religion, ritual, economy, history, and the contemporary transformations of cities.

Reviews for Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence
“What emerges as common features of these cities mark their unique contribution to an understanding of cosmopolitanism as ideal and practice, raising crucial questions about who is or can be cosmopolitan and where cosmopolitanism is in the world. Loosely connected by their orientation to both Europe and Asia, the shifting valences of this outlook over time have important consequences for ... Read more

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