Urban Culture: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural StudiesChris Jenks Taylor & Francis, 2004 - 394 pages "This set includes key pieces from Peter Ackroyd, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Homi Bhaba, Charles Dickens, Fredrick Engles, Paul Gilroy, Thomas Hobbes, Max Weber, George Simmel, Ian Sinclair, Edward W. Soja, Gayatri Spivak, Nigel Thrift, Virginia Woolf, Sharon Zukin, and many others. The material is arranged thematically highlighting the variety of interests that coexist (and conflict) within the city. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered along with urban experiences such as walking, politics & protest, governance, inclusion and exclusion. "Urban pathologies," including gangsters, mugging, and drug-dealing are also explored. Selections cover cities from around the globe, including London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Bombay and Tokyo. A general introduction by the editor reviews theoretical perspectives and provides a rationale for the collection. This collection offers a valuable research tool to a broad range of disciplines, including: sociology; anthropology; cultural history; cultural geography; art critical theory; visual culture; literary studies; social policy and cultural studies." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/2004044268-d.html. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour | 19 |
Home sweet home? Street childrens sites of belonging | 25 |
the history and practice of the flâneur 26 | 26 |
Extract from Two sides of antiracism | 42 |
Walking in the city | 44 |
The traditional way of life | 47 |
Time and space in the consumption of place | 55 |
Street Lives | 149 |
Community studies | 164 |
Scavengers and Cleaners | 175 |
Extracts from The Country and the City | 179 |
Extracts from Some types of character and society | 183 |
a gathering of strangers | 196 |
Rodinskys place | 199 |
Extracts from Writings on Cities | 214 |
The stranger | 62 |
The invisible flâneur | 63 |
The image and the reality | 66 |
Extract from The Condition of the Working Class in England | 78 |
Urban spectatorship | 86 |
Social theory capitalism and the urban question | 88 |
Inside the Jago | 91 |
The flâneur the sandwichman and the whore | 115 |
Politics and spacetime | 123 |
The nature of the city | 145 |
Paris capital of the nineteenth century | 239 |
fetish | 255 |
Modernité | 288 |
The postmodern debate over urban form | 292 |
youth surveillance and display | 306 |
The experience of the city | 315 |
Index | 329 |
The metropolis and mental life | 349 |
The bohemian stage | 375 |
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