Care and the City

Encounters with Urban Studies
Herausgeber: Gabauer, Angelika; Cohen, Nir; Knierbein, Sabine

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Produktbeschreibung

Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people's everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780367468583
• ISBN-10: 0367468581
• Artikelnr.: 62635785

Autorenporträt

Angelika Gabauer is Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at TU Wien, Austria. She is a political scientist with a primary focus in the field of political theory and its interface with urban studies. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the interplay between aging, subjectivity, and urban space production. In 2021 she was a guest researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Sabine Knierbein is Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at TU Wien, Austria. She holds a venia in urban studies. Her research interests include social, political, and cultural theories of urbanization, social inequality, critiques of everyday life and lived space, social infrastructures, intersectional planning theory, disruptive urbanism, and open innovation. Nir Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Bar Ilan University in Israel and was KTH & TU Wien Visiting Professor in Urban Studies (2019). His research interests are in the fields of migration studies and urban social geography. In 2018 he was a visiting fellow of Jewish Migration at the Parkes Institute in the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Henrik Lebuhn is Assistant Professor for Urban and Regional Sociology at HU Berlin, Germany and was KTH & TU Wien Visiting Professor in Urban Studies (2019). He holds a PhD in Political Science from FU Berlin. His research interests include urban politics in comparative perspective, urban citizenship, migration and borders, social movements, and participatory politics. Kim Trogal is Reader in Social and Political Design at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom, and was KTH & TU Wien Visiting Professor in Urban Studies (2020). She is co-editor of The Social (Re)Production of Architecture (Routledge 2017), Architecture and Resilience (Routledge 2018), and "Repair Matters," Ephemera (2019). Tihomir Viderman is Research Associate at the Chair of Urban Management at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany, with research interest in the relationship between affect, spaces of everyday life, and the praxis of urban design and planning. He is co-editor of Public Space Unbound: Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition (Routledge 2018) and co-coordinator of the AESOP Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures. Tigran Haas is Associate Professor of Urban Planning + Urban Design and Director of the Center for the Future of Places at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a guest scholar in residence at the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Conceptualizing Care: Encounters, Critique, and Commons 1. Care,
Uncare, and the City 2. Critical Reflections on Care 3. Care from the
Beginning: Birthing Collective Origins, Interdependent Cities, and New
Community Economies PART II: Social Inequalities, Uneven Space, and Care 4.
Introduction: Social Inequalities, Uneven Space, and Care 5. Cartographies
of Care: Urban Development in Mexico in Response to a Graying America 6.
Turning the Key: How the Pink Passkey Has Shaped the Landscape of (Un)Equal
Opportunity for LGBT-Friendly Eldercare Provision in the Netherlands 7.
'We Are Here to Care': Gendered Urban Safety in Argentina 8. Healthy and
Caring Cities: Accessibility for All and the Role of Urban Spaces in
Re-Activating Capabilities 9. Examining Everyday Outdoor Practices in
Suburban Public Space: The Case for an Expanded Definition of Care as an
Analytical Framework PART III: Everyday Struggles and Contestations Around
Care 10. Introduction: Everyday Struggles and Contestations Around Care
11. 'Respect Toward Old People': The Commodification of Ethnicity in
Migrant Care Work in Germany 12. Care for the Uncared (for): Slum
Redevelopment and the Emerging Challenges of Accessing Care for the Urban
Poor in Delhi 13. Public Space and Children: Who Cares and Who Takes Care
of? 14. Careful Rearrangements: Experiments with Neglected 'Things' in
Architecture 15. Infrastructures from Below: Self-Reproduction and Common
Struggle in and Beyond Athens in Crisis PART IV: New Care Arrangements and
Civic Innovation 16. Introduction: New Care Arrangements and Civic
Innovation 17. Geographies of Aging: Hidden Dimensions of Care in
Stockholm, Vienna, and Zurich 18. The Toronto Public Library as a Site of
Urban Care, Social Repair, and Maintenance in the Smart City 19. Heritage
as a Matter of Care, and Conservation as Caring for the Matter 20. Care as
an Act of Inequality? Complex Social Relations Within the Refugee Camp in
Brussels' Maximilian Park Throughout 2015 21. Digital Care Spaces: The
Particularities of a Digital Home Care Platform