Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Explorations of Urban Coexistence
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-677-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Space and Place

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humphrey, Caroline

Skvirskaja, Vera

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja

Chapter 1. Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City

Caroline Humphrey

Chapter 2. Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education andShifting Jewish Orientation in Post-Soviet Odessa

Marina Sapritsky

Chapter 3. At the City’s Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa

Vera Skvirskaja

Chapter 4. ‘A Gate, but Leading Where?’ In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi

Martin Demant Frederiksen

Chapter 5. Cosmopolitan Architecture: ‘Deviations’ from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-first Century Warsaw

G. Michal Murawski

Chapter 6. Sinking and Shrinking city: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice

Joanna Kostylo

Chapter 7. Haunted by the Past: Immigration and Thessaloniki’s Questionable Path to a New Cosmopolitanism

Panos Hatziprokopiou

Chapter 8. ‘For Badakshan – the Country without Borders!’: Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan City in Tajikistan

Magnus Marsden

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Humphrey, Caroline
Caroline Humphrey is a Research Director in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in the USSR/Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, and India. Her research interests include socialist and post-socialist society, religion, ritual, economy, history, and the contemporary transformations of cities.

Skvirskaja, Vera
Vera Skvirskaja is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. She has worked in arctic Siberia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Her recent research interests include urban cosmopolitanism, educational migration in Europe and coexistence in the post-Soviet city.

Caroline Humphrey is a Research Director in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in the USSR/Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, and India. Her research interests include socialist and post-socialist society, religion, ritual, economy, history, and the contemporary transformations of cities.