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Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants
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Abstract What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up ... view more
What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the »exoticization of the ghetto« (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.... view less
Keywords
social history; urban population; urban development; city quarter; deprivation; social inequality; slum; poverty; exclusion; ghetto; gentrification; social space; historical development
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
239 p.
Series
Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, 17
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839424735
ISBN
978-3-8394-2473-5
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0