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Economic and social change and violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000
Abstract from the distributor :
What dynamics contribute to emergence of social tensions and conflicts in an urban environment? Mass mobilisations and episodes of collective violence have been a constant element in the development of large Indian…
Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities
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The Eighth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities” took place from 11 – 16 June 2008.
An international essay competition was organized…
City and soul in divided societies
Abstract from the publisher: In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast,…
Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
Cities under siege : The new military urbanism
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Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the…
Cities under siege
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Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centres of the West, Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates…
Cities into battlefields: Metropolitan scenarios, experiences and commemorations of total war
Abstract from the publisher: Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front line and to direct…
Cities in translation: Intersections of language and memory
Abstract from the publisher: All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city.…
Mots-clés: Barcelona, Barcelone, Calcutta, conflit urbain, culture urbaine, Kolkata, language, langue, Montréal, multilingualism, multilinguisme, Simon Sherry, Trieste, urbanité
Cities in an insecure world
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Some of the most intractable and enduring challenges of development are concerned with reducing insecurity. Early and very current development debates have been concerned with issues of food security.
Ensuring…
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Cahiers des Amériques Latines
Les Cahiers des Amériques Latines est une publication de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique latine. Les anciens numéros (datant de plus de trois ans) sont disponibles en texte intégral sur le site internet de…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Arrival city : How the largest migration in history is reshaping our world
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A third of the world’s people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word’s rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the…
Mots-clés: bidonville, conflit urbain, migrant, migration urbaine, mutation urbaine, pauvreté, Saunders Doug, urbanisation