City publics : the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters / by Sophie Watson

By:

Watson, Sophie

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Questioning cities / edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie WatsonPublication details: London : Routledge/ Taylor & Francis, 2006.Description: viii, 193 p., plates : illISBN:

0415312280
9780415312288

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 WAT-C

Contents:

Contents : chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- The (Dis)Enchantments of urban Encounters-- City Publics: The (Dis)Enchantments of Urban Encounters-- Constructing Public Space -- Psychonalytic Accounts -- The Book’s Outline -- 2: SYMBOLIC SPACES OF DIFFERENCE: CONTESTING THE ERUV IN BARNET, LONDON AND TENAFLY, NEW JERSEY -- Constitution Matters: The Case of the Tenafly, New Jersey Eruv Planning and local government - English sites of conservatism and the Barnet Eruv-- Discourses of Dissent-- Concluding Reflections-- Postscript-- 3: NOSTALGIA AT WORK: LIVING WITH DIFFERENCE IN A LONDON STREET MARKET Princess Street Market-- Nostalgia-- Crime and Safety-- Cosmopolitanism and Socio-economic Decline-- Being Anglophone-- Being Christian -- Welfare Chauvinism-- Conclusion-- CHAPTER 4: RISKY SPACE AND MONEY TALKS: THE HAMPSTEAD PONDS MEET STATE REGULATION-- The Hampstead Ponds-- A Question of Money? -- CHAPTER 5: DISROBING IN PUBLIC: EMBODIED DIFFERENCES IN BATHING SITES STEAMING BODIES - TURKISH BATHS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENCE HAMPSTEAD PONDS -- Conclusion-- Postscript-- CHAPTER 6: INVISIBLE SUBJECTS: ENCOUNTER, DESIRE AND ASSOCIATION AMONGST OLDER PEOPLE-- Invisibility-- The University of the Third Age (U3A) -- Allotments-- Unsexy Bodies-- A State of Fear -- Conclusion-- CHAPTER 7: CHILDREN?S PUBLICS-- Children and public space: a case study-- CHAPTER 8: THE (DIS)ENCHANTMENTS OF URBAN ENCOUNTERS - SOME CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS-- Public/Private-- Stranger Danger -- Risk -- Affect Effect -- Towards Enchanted Urban Encounters --

Summary: "This book explores the conditions under which violent and negative emotions can erupt to the detriment of others, and elucidates through fine-grained exploration what underlies racist, homophobic, sexist or any other phobic/ist exclusionary practices, so that it becomes possible in some way to expose and confront them. At the same time this book uncovers and reveals some of the many and serendipitous sites of enchantment and pleasure to be found in the city." "With numerous photographs and drawings City Publics not only throws new light on encounters with others in public space, but also destabilises dominant, sometimes simplistic, universalised accounts and helps us reimagine urban public space as a site of potentiality, difference and enchanted encounters."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : chapter 1: INTRODUCTION --
The (Dis)Enchantments of urban Encounters--
City Publics: The (Dis)Enchantments of Urban Encounters--
Constructing Public Space --
Psychonalytic Accounts --
The Book’s Outline --
2: SYMBOLIC SPACES OF DIFFERENCE: CONTESTING THE ERUV IN BARNET, LONDON AND TENAFLY, NEW JERSEY --
Constitution Matters: The Case of the Tenafly, New Jersey Eruv
Planning and local government - English sites of conservatism and the Barnet Eruv--
Discourses of Dissent--
Concluding Reflections--
Postscript--
3: NOSTALGIA AT WORK: LIVING WITH DIFFERENCE IN A LONDON STREET MARKET
Princess Street Market--
Nostalgia--
Crime and Safety--
Cosmopolitanism and Socio-economic Decline--
Being Anglophone--
Being Christian --
Welfare Chauvinism--
Conclusion--
CHAPTER 4: RISKY SPACE AND MONEY TALKS: THE HAMPSTEAD PONDS MEET STATE REGULATION--
The Hampstead Ponds--
A Question of Money? --
CHAPTER 5: DISROBING IN PUBLIC: EMBODIED DIFFERENCES IN BATHING SITES
STEAMING BODIES - TURKISH BATHS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENCE
HAMPSTEAD PONDS --
Conclusion--
Postscript--
CHAPTER 6: INVISIBLE SUBJECTS: ENCOUNTER, DESIRE AND ASSOCIATION AMONGST OLDER PEOPLE--
Invisibility--
The University of the Third Age (U3A) --
Allotments--
Unsexy Bodies--
A State of Fear --
Conclusion--
CHAPTER 7: CHILDREN?S PUBLICS--
Children and public space: a case study--
CHAPTER 8: THE (DIS)ENCHANTMENTS OF URBAN ENCOUNTERS - SOME CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS--
Public/Private--
Stranger Danger --
Risk --
Affect Effect --
Towards Enchanted Urban Encounters --

"This book explores the conditions under which violent and negative emotions can erupt to the detriment of others, and elucidates through fine-grained exploration what underlies racist, homophobic, sexist or any other phobic/ist exclusionary practices, so that it becomes possible in some way to expose and confront them. At the same time this book uncovers and reveals some of the many and serendipitous sites of enchantment and pleasure to be found in the city."
"With numerous photographs and drawings City Publics not only throws new light on encounters with others in public space, but also destabilises dominant, sometimes simplistic, universalised accounts and helps us reimagine urban public space as a site of potentiality, difference and enchanted encounters."--Jacket.

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