City publics
Subtitle: the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters
By: Sophie Watson.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Sociology, Urban; Public spaces; Cities and towns -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters; title: City publics: the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters; title: Constructing public space; title: Public potentialities; title: The limits to difference; title: Psychonalytic accounts; title: The book's outline; title: Symbolic spaces of difference: contesting the eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey; title: Constitution matters: the case of the Tenafly, New Jersey eruv; title: Planning and local government - English sites of conservatism and the Barnet eruv; title: Discourses of dissent; title: Concluding reflections; title: Postscript; title: Nostalgia at work: living with difference in a London street market; title: Princess Street market; title: Nostalgia; title: Crime and safety; title: Cosmopolitanism and socio-economic decline; title: Being anglophone; title: Being Christian; title: Welfare chauvinism; title: Conclusion; title: Risky space and money talks: the Hampstead Ponds meet state regulation; title: The Hampstead Ponds; title: A question of money?; title: Conclusion; title: Disrobing in public: embodied differences in bathing sites; title: Steaming bodies - turkish baths and the performance of difference; title: Hampstead Ponds; title: Conclusion; title: Postscript; title: Invisible subjects: encounter, desire and association amongst older people; title: Invisibility; title: The university of the third age (u3a); title: Allotments; title: Unsexy bodies; title: A state of fear; title: Conclusion; title: Children?s publics; title: Children and public space: a case study; title: Conclusion; title: The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters : some concluding reflections; title: Public/private; title: Stranger danger; title: Risk; title: Affect effect; title: Towards enchanted urban encounters.