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Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the editors and contributors detail on-the-ground events and transformations of different cities embattled in social movements, and capture solidarities of people against the mechanisms of state and global capitalism through situated narratives and microhistories of resistance.
Claims on the City approaches the understanding of cities from methods grounded in humanities, focusing on the humane, subjective, emotive aspects of the cities. The contributors bring together perspectives from the disciplinary locations of performance studies, film studies, architecture, cultural studies, heritage studies, history, and religious studies; an unusual selection in studying the urban.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Choreographing the City

Chapter 1: Occupying Bangkok: Performing Rights Across the City in a Series of Unpredictable Flash Mobs in Neoliberal Thailand
Rubkwan Thammaboosadee

Chapter 2: From Confederate Monuments to Black Lives Matter Protests: The Role of Material Culture in Shaping and Reshaping Richmond's Racialized Landscape
Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra and Lee Ann Timreck

Chapter 3: Yale: Respect New Haven (New Artwork to Protest an Old University).
Laura A. Macaluso

Chapter 4: Allegory or Algorithm: The Smart City as Monument
Richard Simpson

Part 2: Culturescapes of Rapid Urbanization

Chapter 5: Memory, Nostalgia, and Asakusa in Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Television
Mina Qiao

Chapter 6: Filming the City: Embodying Interruption
Dikshya Karki

Chapter 7: Claiming History, Claiming Present: Muslim Diaspora and Hyderabad City
C.Yamini Krishna

Chapter 8: The Soul of The City: Mindfulness Practice in Hong Kong
Marin Nycklemoe

Product details

Published Oct 30 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 280
ISBN 9781666941609
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 23 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions 236 x 157 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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