Negotiating urban conflicts
Subtitle: interaction, space and control
By: Helmuth Berking ... [et al.] (eds.)
Contributors: Berking, Helmuth
Series: Materialities -- v. 1
Publisher: Transcript; distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bielefeld; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Sociology, Urban -- Congresses; Land use, Urban -- Congresses; Public spaces -- Congresses; Conflict management -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "This collection came out of a three day conference of the same title held at the Darmstadt University of Technology on April 7-9, 2005"--P. 12

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial cities, postcolonial critiques; title: Anthony D. King; title: Contested places and the politics of space; title: Helmuth Berking; title: The city as assemblage: diasporic cultures, postmodern spaces, and biopolitics / Couze Venn; title: Remapping the geopolitics of terror: uncanny urban spaces in Singapore; title: Lisa Law; title: Cultural homogenisation, places of memory, and the loss of secular urban space / Anil Bhatti; title: The politics and poetics of religion: Hindu processions and urban conflicts / Lily Kong; title: Negotiating the city; title: everyday forms of segregation in middle class Cairo / Anouk de Koning; title: Negotiating public spaces: the right to the gendered city and the right to difference / Tovi Fenster; title: On the road to being white: the construction of whiteness in the everyday life of expatriate German high flyers in Singapore and London / Lars Meier; title: Prostitution; title: power relations between space and gender /  Martina Löw, Renate Ruhne; title: Between refeudalization and new cultural politics: the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg / Elena Trubina; title: Reflections on a cartography of the non-visible: urban experience and the Internet / Marc Ries; title: Picturing urban identities / Sergej Stoetzer; title: Communist heritage tourism and its local (dis)contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin / Sybille Frank; title: Earthquake recovery and historic buildings: investigating the conflicts / Fatima Al-Nammari; title: The phenomenon of exclusion / Hein Bude; title: Orbit palace: locations and cultures of redundant time / Silke Steets; title: Pacification by design: An ethnography of normalization techniques / Lars Frers; title: Violence prevention in a South African township / Kosta Mathéy; title: Homeland/target: cities and the "War on Terror" / Stephen Graham; title: Terrorism and the right to the secure city: safety vs. security in public spaces / Peter Marcuse