Spaces of the poor perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants

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...

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Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection funder (funder)
Other Authors: Petersen, Hans-Christian (Editor), Petersen, Hans-Christian, 1972- editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2013
Bielefeld, Germany : [2013]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 17.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419791706719
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Contents 5 lntroduction 7 A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure 15 The Subalterns Speak Out 47 "... not intended for the Rich" 71 Blood in the Air 97 Outcast Vienna 1900 121 Revisiting Campbell Bunk 135 Creating the City of Delhi 147 Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks 169 Urban Poverty and Gentrification 193 Europe's only Megacity 209 Contributors 237