Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-human geographies, soundscapes and spiritual experience, Encountering the City argues for a more nuanced understanding of how the concept of 'encounter' is used. This interdisciplinary collection thus provides an insight into how scholars' writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. These cases go beyond conventional accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how encounters destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together complex temporalities, materialise power and transform political relations. In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the forms of regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking place of urban encounter. Encountering the City is a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2016

ISBN

9781317143956

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

City Planning & Urban Development

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 The Possibilities of Encounter
2 Mobilising Sentiment for Multiplicity
3 From Urban Talent to Commodity City: Encountering Marketplaces in the Informal Economy
4 Transspecies Urban Theory: Chickens in an African City
5 Atmospheric Politics and Entangled Encounters: Freedom Square in Tallinn
6 On the Politics of Vision and Touch: Encountering Fearful and Fearsome Bodies in Cape Town, South Africa
7 Encountering Keighley: More-than-Human Geographies of Difference in a Former Mill Town
8 Encountering Religion through Accra's Urban Soundscape
9 Art Tactics and Urban Improvisation
10 Working Across Class Difference in Popular Assemblies in Buenos Aires
11 Encountering Suspicion: Preemptive Security and the Urban Field of Suspects
12 Encountering Havana: Texts, Aesthetics and Documentary Encounters
13 Deadly and Lively Encounters
14 Encountering What Is (Not) There
Index