Urban communities Books

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Drug Problems, Drug Policies; D.Whynes - DRUG USE AND THE BRITISH SYSTEM - The Consequences of Illegal Drug Use; C.Fazey - The Junkies' Doctors and the London Drug Scene in the 1960s: some remembered fragments; K...

Preface - List of Contributors - Introduction; The Editors - PART 1: POLICING DRUGS AT LOCAL LEVEL - Copenhagen: a War on Socially Marginal People; J.Jepsen - London: 'Community Damage Limitation' through Policing; M.Lee - Hamburg: Handling an Open Drug...

The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected. Under conditions of globalization, inside/outside markers have been eroded and conventional indicators of 'we-ness'...

This volume brings a plurality of approaches -- from political economic to Foucauldian -- to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. The contributors explore the range of resistant agency and reveal the heterogeneity of...

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the wayto a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work...

This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between nationalism and urban history. It reveals the contrasting experiences of nationalism in different societies and milieus. It will help...

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighborhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of...

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery andconsiders the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris...

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight with an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter...

This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the...

In many western cities, urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardised experience. This book takes a new look at this rapidly...

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience,...

Curious about the images of the city that have been evolving in the different social sciences, we did what academics often do in such a situa­ 1 tion: we set up a seminar on "Images of the City in the Social Sciences." From the...

Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. In twelve multidisciplinary essays, Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday brings together key themes that dominate our current...

Fear has always been present in cities. However, recent events and political and social trends have intensified these insecurities and refocused very diverse anxieties on civic space. The changing role of the state through globalization, and the growth...

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasinglycommonin outer city regionsacrossthe world. This book examines theprocesses of post-suburbanization in international perspective, exploringhow developments...

List of Figures Introduction: Public Speaking in the Modern City Look Who's Talking Architects and the Urban Public Appearing in Public Locating the Voices Epilogue: Public Speaking and the City of the Future Notes Bibliography

Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial production of urban space, what industry practices reveal about...

This book offers a broad range of scholarly interpretations of the evolving forms, the changing dynamics, and the unexpected surprises that characterize contemporary African cities. It wrestles with important questions concerning how large numbers of...

In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman - have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S...

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, .the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social...

A theoretical exploration of piercing and other forms of body modification that urban communities of defiance use to express their identity, this analysis demonstrates the socioeconomic, political, and sexual conditions that give rise to these unique...

Sutton, Kemp, and their contributors demonstrate the importance of place as a site of oppression and transformation, offering placemaking strategies that agents of change in a variety of disciplines can use in working with youth and adults. Their essays...

More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano's autobiographythe first slave narrative to be widely readreveals many aspects of the eighteenthcentury Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition takes into...

Cultural diversity and difference is increasing in European cities, driven byeconomic integration, migration, globalization and EU enlargement. Against a background of cultural friction, Migration and Cultural Inclusion in the European City is centrally...

The emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government. The growth of the city and its evolution into the...

This book provides a comparative analysis of edge cities in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland and the UK, offering a theoretical analysis of the edge city and of post-suburban Europe.