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Title Understanding the city through its margins : pluridisciplinary perspectives from case studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East / edited by André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Routledge studies in modern history ; 31
Routledge studies in modern history ; 31.
Contents The city and its regulations : unexpected margins / André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi -- Space and state regulation : the urban interstices. Markets and marginality in Beirut / Franck Mermier ; The tremendous making and unmaking of the peripheries in current Istanbul / Jean-François Pérouse ; Resilient forms of urbanity on the margins? Al-Kherba : a vivid market in a damaged section of the medina of Tunis / Nora Lafi ; Whose margins? Marginality, poverty and the moral geography of pre-Soviet Bukhara / Jeanine Daǧyeli ; On the margins of the city : Izmir Prison in the late Ottoman Empire / Ufuk Adak -- Diversity and moral policing : making claims through marginalisation. "Texas" : an off-centre district at the heart of nightlife in Odienné / André Chappatte ; The Manyema in colonial Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) between urban margins and regional connections / Katharina Zöller ; On the margins : suburban space and religious deviancy in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur / Saskia Schäfer ; Ethnic differentiation and conflict dynamics : Uzbeks' marginalisation and non-marginalisation in southern Kyrgyzstan / Aksana Ismailbekova, Baktygul Karimova
Summary "Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist without its margins, both materially, ideationally, and socially. In this book the margins are, first, the mirrors of the city and, second, a fundamental route through which various centers can legitimate and sustain their power. Contemporary case studies are compared to a number of those from history with the accent on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and engage with the underlying theoretical questions of what is the urban margin and what is marginality in urban society and spaces?"-- Taylor & Francis resource page, viewed May 11, 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 11, 2021)
Subject Marginality, Social -- Africa
Marginality, Social -- Asia
Marginality, Social -- Middle East
Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Africa
Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Asia
Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Middle East
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Marginality, Social
Urbanization -- Social aspects
Africa
Asia
Middle East
Form Electronic book
Author Chappatte, André, editor.
Freitag, Ulrike, editor.
Lafi, Nora, editor.
ISBN 9781315171715
1315171716
9781138045897
1138045896
1351695681
9781351695688