Urban communities / city life Books

Book SynopsisThe archive of the Kong Koan constitutes the only relatively complete archive of a “diaspora” Chinese urban community in Southeast Asia. The essays in the present volume offer important and new insights into many different aspects of Overseas Chinese life between 1780-1965. The Kong Koan of colonial Batavia was a semi-autonomous organization, in which the local elite of Jakarta’s Chinese community supervised and coordinated its social and religious matters. During its long existence as a semi-official colonial institution, the Kong Koan collected sizeable Chinese archival holdings with demographic data on marriages and funerals, account books of the religious organisations and temples, documents connected with educational institutions, and the meetings of the board itself.

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Book SynopsisAt times of economic and political crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers display a large degree of creativity in their survival strategies by developing social networks and constructing imaginative and original practices and ideas. This volume views the urban neighbourhood from two different perspectives and explores the importance of these creative processes. The first approach considers the neighbourhood as a geographical domain in which people are engaged in a variety of activities to advance their material and immaterial well-being, making use of their ‘wealth’ of opportunities, assets and diverse forms of natural, physical, financial, human and social capital. The second angle sees the neighbourhood as not necessarily geographically located or bounded but as having been created and defined by human beings. These neighbourhoods may take on the form of self-help organizations, associations or churches, or be based on gender, generational, ethnic or occupational identities.Table of ContentsContents Figures vii Maps vii Tables vii Photographs viii 1 The African neighbourhood: An introduction 1 Piet Konings, Rijk van Dijk & Dick Foeken 2 Surviving in the neighbourhoods of Nakuru town, Kenya 22 Samuel Owuor & Dick Foeken 3 ‘Bendskin’ drivers in Douala’s New Bell neighbourhood: Masters of the road and the city 46 Piet Konings 4 Intimate strangers: Neighbourhood, autochthony and the politics of belonging 66 Basile Ndjio 5 Neighbourhood formation process: Access to housing land in Kamwokya, Kampala, Uganda 88 Emmanuel Nkurunziza 6 Urban space, gender and identity: A neighbourhood of Muslim women in Kano, Nigeria 119 Katja Werthmann 7 Maps of what matters: Community colour 142 Deborah Pellow 8 Not quite the comforts of home: Searching for locality among street youth in Dar es Salaam 163 Eileen Moyer 9 Togolese cartographies: Re-mapping space in a post-Cold War city 197 Charles Piot 10 Neighbours on the fringes of a small city in post-war Chad 211 Mirjam de Bruijn 11 Neighbourhood (re)construction and changing identities in Mauritania from a small town perspective 230 Kiky van Til List of authors 251

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Book SynopsisThe nine empirical studies in New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities, organized under the general framework of urban space, examine three critical dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China—social, legal and governance orders. Together these narratives suggest a new perception of this historical urbanism. While modern economic development was a major drive for Chinese urban transformation, this volume highlights the dimension of the multilayered forces that shape urban space by looking into that less quantifiable, but equally important cultural realm and by exposing the ways in which these forces created new urban narratives, which became themselves shapers of urban space and of our perception of the Republican urbanity.Trade Review"The chapters reveal trends that complicate the quest to locate Habermasian public spaces in the volatile urban formations of a politically fragmented and conflict-ridden nation." Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A Prologue Billy K.L. So and Madeleine Zelin Part 1. Social Order Chapter 2 Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican China Antonia Finnane Chapter 3 City-building, the New Life Movement, and the "Making of the Citizen" in 1930s Nanchang Federica Ferlanti Chapter 4 Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937-1940 Harriet Zurndorfer Part 2. Law and Order Chapter 5 Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928 Brett Sheehan Chapter 6 The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930s Michael Hoi Kit Ng Chapter 7 Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s China Jan Kiely Part 3. Goverance Order Chapter 8 British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910-1930s Robert Bickers Chapter 9 Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912-1937 John Fitzgerald Chapter 10 Xi'an, 1900-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance Center Pierre-Etienne Will

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of “Chinatown” has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Chinatowns around the World seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with empirical data. The authors also examine the changing nature and functions of Chinatowns around the world while scrutinizing how factors emanating from larger societies and other external factors have shaped Chinatown development and transformation. The activities of the recent Chinese transnational migrants are also critically appraised.Trade Review"王保华教授（Bernard P. Wong）和陈志明教授（Tan Chee-Beng）都是华人研究领域中极有成就的资深学者，不仅了解华人的历史和现状，而且熟知研究唐人街的各种理论和观点。他们编辑的这本书可说是填补了这个领域的空白。[...]这是一本想了解全球华人历史与现状的必读书。" 刘海铭, 美国加州州立理工大学普莫纳分校亚洲与亚美研究系, 《华人研究国际学报》 第五卷 第二期 2013年12月 页111–114Table of ContentsIntroduction Chinatowns around the World Bernard Wong Chapter One Vancouver Chinatown in Transition Peter S. Li and Xiaoling Li Chapter Two From Mott Street to East Broadway: Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown Kenneth J. Guest Chapter Three The New Trends in American Chinatowns: The Case of the Chinese in Chicago Huping Ling Chapter Four Chinatown Sydney: A Window on the Chinese Community Christine Inglis Chapter Five The Chinatown in Peru and the Changing Peruvian Chinese Communities Isabelle Lausent-Herrera Chapter Six Chinatown Havana: One Hundered and Sixty Years below the Surface Adrian H. Hearn Chapter Seven Problematizing "Chinatowns": Conflicts and Narratives Surrounding Chinese Quarters in and around Paris Chuang Ya-Han and Anne-Christine Trémon Chapter Eight Chinatown-Lisbon? Portrait of a Globalizing Present over a National Background Paula Mota Santos Chapter Nine Ikebukuro Chinatown in Tokyo: The First "New Chinatown" in Japan Yamashita Kiyomi Chapter Ten Chinatowns: A Reflection Tan Chee-Beng

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Book SynopsisCars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity. Contributors include: Freek Colombijn, Joost Coté, Saki Murakami, Michelle Kooy, Karen Bakker, Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen, Hans Versnel, Farabi Fakih, Radjimo Sastro Wijono, Gustaaf Reerink, Arjan Veering, Johny A. Khusyairi, Purnawan Basundoro, Ida Liana Tanjung, and Sarkawi B. Husain.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram. Cet ouvrage regroupe un éventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautés marronnes au début de la colonisation, aux mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberté des homosexuels, tous font prévaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de manière plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine où s’exerce parfois de manière violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilité sociale. Les guerres électorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une géographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve à se déplacer en milieu rural dans certaines dérives sectaires comme en témoigne l’étude sur Boko Haram. Contributors are: Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Raphaël Botiveau, Christophe Broqua, Michel Cahen,Thomas Fouquet, Adam Hizagi, Alcinda Honwana, Alexander Keese, Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Dominique Malaquais, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Ophélie Rillon, Johanna Siméant, Benjamin Soares, Kadya Tall.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction 1. On the banality of mobilisation in Africa / De la banalité des mobilisations en Afrique Michel Cahen, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Kadya Tall Part I De l’attente des jeunes et leurs formes de contestation / Waithood or youth longing for real changes 2. Alcinda Honwana : “Enough is enough!”: Youth protests and political change in Africa. 3. Benjamin Soares & Marie-Nathalie Leblanc: Islam, jeunesse et trajectoires de mobilisation en Afrique de l’Ouest à l’ère néolibérale : un regard anthropologique. 4. Kadya Tall : Dieu, le Pape et la Sainte Vierge : un mouvement de contestation de l’Église catholique au Bénin. 5. Thomas Fouquet : La trame politique des cultures urbaines : motifs dakarois. Part II Quand des minorités sociales manifestent / When social minorities demonstrate 6. Alexander Keese : Colonialism and fugitive communities in West Central Africa, 1920-1955 : Seeking parallels with Maroon societies. 7. Ophélie Rillon : Mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire : la “dépolitisation” comme outil d’émancipation dans le Mali des années 1970. 8. Christophe Broqua : Les pro, les anti et l’international : mobilisations autour de l’homosexualité en Afrique de l’Ouest. 9. Raphaël Botiveau : Changing leadership representations and loss of union authority in South Africa’s mineworkers’ strikes. Part III Violence et état d’exception / Violence and state of exception 10. Dominique Malaquais: Geographies of violence: Urban imaginaries in Douala. 11. Johanna Siméant: Shadow of the state, fear of violence, and the memory of 1991 : Marches and riots in Bamako, Mali (1992-2011). 12. Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga : Les “guerres électorales” et les mobilisations violentes au Congo-Brazzaville. 13. Adam Higazi : Mobilisation into and against Boko Haram in North-East Nigeria. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a new perspective on Islamic urban society: a dynamism of social networking and justice which caused both rapid development and sudden decay in the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter. Founded in the northern suburbs of Damascus by Hanbali ulama who migrated from Palestine to Syria in the mid-12th century, the quarter developed into a city through waqf endowments. It has attracted the attention of historians and travelers for its unique location, popular movements and religious features. Through the study of local chronicles, topographies and archival sources and through modern field research, Toru Miura explores the history of the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter from its foundation to the early 20th century, comparing it to European, Chinese and Japanese cities.

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Book SynopsisIn Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian traces the political reasons for their emergence and their architectural type in Europe around 1200. In Rome, hospitals ballasted the corporate image of social elites, aided in settling and garrisoning vital sectors and were the hubs around which strategies aimed at territorial control revolved. When the strategies faltered, the institutions were rapidly abandoned. Hospitals in areas of enduring significance instead still function, bearing testimony to the influence of late medieval urban interventions on modern Rome.Trade Review“readable and detailed […] the author convincingly ties the architectural history of hospitals to power and to urban planning and development in high and late medieval Rome.” Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1495-1497.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I – BUILDING STATES: ROME and EUROPE Chapter 1 – Healing Forgiveness Chapter 2 – The Borgo
 Chapter 3 – Hospitals, Monasteries and Urban Control PART II – CONQUERING A CITY: ROME and LATIUM Chapter 1 – Hospitals, Towers and Barons Chapter 2 – The Lateran Chapter 3 – The Papal Hospital: Santo Spirito in Sassia Epilogue Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Becoming Citizens in China, Shi Yunqing describes the two interlinked histories that have made China’s urban and economic miracle: the unfolding process of inner city renewal and the production of citizens shaped by the collective rights defence actions in response to demolition and resettlement projects. Shi reveals a complex problematic tension between the state and the individual during China's social transition. This book is rigorously researched and draws on a rich body of materials. In this approach to State-Individual relationship, Shi Yunqing convincingly shows how citizens are produced in urban social movements against the backdrop of differences between Chinese and Western development histories. The production of citizens in “Chinese-style” produces insightful “local knowledge” and contributes to a new global sociology in general and the Post-Western sociology in particular. __________ 在《再造城民》这本书中，施芸卿讲述了造就中国城市和经济奇迹的两段互为表里的历史：旧城的再造与公民的生产。从国家和个人之间的相互形塑出发，她展现了中国社会转型的独特逻辑。本书有着极其详实的法律、政策文本和田野材料，以“国家—个人”关系为研究路径，施芸卿令人信服地解释了在与西方发展历史不同的中国背景下，公民如何从都市社会运动中产生。“中国式”的公民生产提供了富于洞见的本土知识，为新的全球社会学，尤其是后西方社会学研究做出了贡献。Table of ContentsForeword by Shen Yuan Foreword by Yang Yiyin Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction: The Urban Social Movements and Social Transition in China  1 Why to Study Urban Social Movements: A Dynamic Perspective and Distinct Process of Social Transition  2 How to Study Urban Social Movements: the “Chinese-style” Production of Citizens  3 Case and Methodology  4 Overview of Chapters 1 Resistance for Rights  1 The Story of a Private Courtyard  2 From Individual Rights Defense Actions to In-district Mobilization  3 From In-district Mobilization to Inter-district Unification 2 Politics of the City  1 Public-owned Housing System: Individual Getting Absorbed by the State  2 Operating Cities: Real Estate Market Freed Up by the State  3 Urban Miracle and Paradox of Demolition: Poles Apart 3 Secret of Land  1 Chinese-style “City Creation”: Commercialization of Land Generated from Public Ownership  2 “Real Estate Development-driven Reconstruction of Dilapidated Houses”: the Local Government-led Land Management  3 Reconstruction Developers: Dual-logic Actor 4 Differentiation of the State  1 Another Possibility of the State-Individual Relationship  2 Portrayal of the Two Sets of State-individual Relationship: Two Definitions of Demolition/Relocation  3 Differentiation of the State: Pushing the Local Government Out of the State Framework 5 Forging of Citizenry  1 Three Levels of “Selective Firming” of Self-boundary  2 Forging of Citizenry: Self-boundary Firming by the Idea of Rights 6 Production of Society  1 Dual Dimension of Citizenship: Being Public and Contractual  2 Production of Society: Cross Bonds and Bottom-Up Echo  3 Space for Protest: Being Created and Shaped Conclusion: Becoming Citizens  1 Transition-oriented “Process”: An Analytical Framework  2 Promoting Social Transition while Making Adaptations: A “Nested” Structure  3 A Bottom-Up Social Transition: Full Application of Law  4 Limitations and Future Research Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, based on the study of original archives, discusses the roots and specificities of urban governance in the Ottoman Empire and proposes innovative interpretations of the ambiguous impact of this old regime municipal system with modernity. Cet ouvrage, fondé sur la consultation d’archives originales, propose une étude des racines et de la spécificité de la gouvernance municipale d’ancien régime dans l’empire ottoman et analyse l’impact ambigu de ce système avec la modernité.Trade Review[...] The book Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l’Empire ottoman (XVe-XXe siècles) contains a useful discussion of the theoretical debates that have marked the field until very recently, and presents important indications for future trajectories of research in the history of Ottoman urban contexts. Nicola Verderame, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, in Studi Magrebini 17.1-2 (2019) 169-182Table of ContentsAvant-propos Liste des illustrations Introduction : Pour un autre regard sur les études urbaines en contexte ottoman Le paradigme wébérien: fondements, extrapolations et échos contemporains Les débats sur la nature de la ville islamique : genèse et actualité Rompre avec les interprétations essentialistes : une posture de recherche 1 Aux racines du gouvernement urbain dans l’Empire ottoman : réflexions sur les héritages antiques et médiévaux 1 La question des éventuels héritages antiques 2 Le moment de la conquête arabe : données sur la gouvernance urbaine 3 Les héritages arabes médiévaux 4 La question plébéienne et l’hypothèse populaire 5 La place des notables dans la gouvernance urbaine médiévale 6 Gouvernance urbaine et question religieuse 7 La Hisba et l’organisation urbaine : préceptes religieux, moraux, commerciaux et vie civique 8 Représentants urbains du pouvoir central 9 Le personnage du qâdî et la gouvernance urbaine 10 La question des gouverneurs 11 La sphère civique locale : le cas de la noblesse généalogique 12 Le groupe des a’yân 13 Les instances civiques de la notabilité 14 Vie corporative et vie civique 15 Héritages byzantins dans l’administration ottomane 2 L’ancien régime ottoman du gouvernement urbain (XVe-XVIIIe siècles) 1 La construction progressive de l’ancien régime étatique ottoman 2 L’étude des Tahrîr defteri : un outil pour l’histoire urbaine ottomane 3 Analyse des premiers Tahrîr Defteri d’Alep ottomane 4 Une société urbaine organisée et hiérarchisée 5 La question de l’existence d’une municipalité d’ancien régime à Istanbul 6 Convergence des situations municipales à l’échelle de l’empire 7 Les prérogatives de la notabilité 8 Les notables et l’identité civique citadine 9 Révoltes, luttes factieuses et ajustements de l’ordre impérial au XVIIIe siècle 10 Damas au milieu du XVIIIe siècle : le pouvoir des gouverneurs ‘Azm et la guerre factieuse comme réajustement de l’ancien régime ottoman 11 La chronique comme annale civique de l’ancien régime urbain 12 La pétition et le rescrit comme actes bureaucratiques d’ancien régime 13 De véritables municipalités d’ancien régime 3 L’Egypte entre 1798 et les années 1830 : l’impact ambigu de la modernité 1 Occupation française et évolution des structures du gouvernement urbain 2 La dimension urbaine des révoltes contre l’occupation française 3 Le moment Muhammad ‘Alî : réforme, empire, héritages et idées de la modernité 4 Un cosmopolitisme municipal d’essence coloniale 4 Interpréter les réformes urbaines ottomanes dans leur contexte 1 L’impulsion réformatrice dans l’Empire ottoman : aux racines des tanzîmât 2 Pour une remise en question de la narration classique des réformes urbaines ottomanes 3 Istanbul dans les années 1850 : réformes municipales, construction de l’Etat et statut de la capitale 4 La question municipale dans l’empire 5 Panorama de la transition réformatrice dans quelques villes de l’empire Conclusion Sources et bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisMany urban centres are shaken to their core with mistrust between communities and law enforcement. Erosion was exacerbated in the Obama-era, intensified during the 2016 campaign, and is violently manifested in Trump’s presidency. The promise of uniting communities articulated by leaders lays broken. The text suggests that promise of prosperous and engaged urban citizenry will remain broken until we can honestly address the following unanswered questions: What factors contribute to the creation of divided communities? What happened to erode trust between community and law enforcement? What concerns and challenges do law enforcement officials have relating to policing within urban centres? What are the experiences of residents and police? And, finally, whose lives really matter, and how do we move forward? Contributors are: Lawrence Baines, Amber C. Bryant, Erica L. Bumpers, Issac Carter, Justin A. Cole, Erin Dreeszen, Jaquial Durham, Antonio Ellis, Idara Essien, Jeffrey M. Frank, Beatriz Gonzalez, Aaron J. Griffen, Jennie L. Hanna, Diane M. Harnek Hall, Cleveland Hayes, Deanna Hayes-Wilson, Stacey Hill, Jim L. Hollar, Taharee A. Jackson, Melinda Jackson-Jefferson, Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Stephen M. Lentz, Patricia Maloney, Isiah Marshall, Jr., Derrick McKisick, Rebecca Neal, Ariel Quinio, Jacqueline M. Rhoden-Trader, Derrick Robinson, Ebony B. Rose, Randa Suleiman, Clarice Thomas, Kerri J. Tobin, Eddie Vanderhorst, Rolanda L. Ward, Deondra Warner, John Williams, Deleon M. Wilson, Geoffrey L. Wood, Jemimah L. Young, and Jie Yu.Table of ContentsBlack Bodies, Blue Ribbons: An Introduction  Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Kerri J. Tobin and Stephen M. Lentz 1. The Jim Crow Effect on Federal Policy and Practice: Social Engineering and the Making of Metropolis in Black and White  Issac Carter, Beatriz Gonzalez and Cleveland Hayes 2. The Costs of Whistling, Orange Juice, and Skittles: An Anti-Black Examination of the Extrajudicial Killings of Black Youth  Justin A. Coles 3. The Myth of Post-Emancipation: Utilizing the 1857 Dred Scott Decision and the 2017 Chicago Department of Justice Report to Examine Hyper-Policing, Black Freedom, and Strategies for Resistance  Ebony Rose 4. East vs. West: The Industrious and Inconsistent Rising of Buffalo, New York  Roland L. Ward and Isiah Marshall Jr 5. Historical Categorical Inequality: The Creation of Two Segregated Cities within an Urban Centre  Geoffrey L. Wood 6. Segregation Then, Segregation Now: A Tale of Two Cities within One Urban Area  Melinda Jackson-Jefferson and Deondra Warner 7. The Double Penalty: How School and Neighborhood Segregation Affects Racial Conflict  Patricia Maloney 8. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold  Deanna Hayes-Wilson 9. The Contested New Territory: Integration and Dissatisfaction  Ariel Quinio 10. Cranes, Cones, and Invisible Walls: How Zip Codes, Economic Development, and Housing Patterns Strengthen Segregation  Derrick Robinson 11. Fighting the Powers That Be: Examining Conflicting Dual Legitimate Powers Operative in Urban America  Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Diane M. Harnek Hall and Jacqueline M. Rhoden-Trader 12. The Decreasing Value of Labor in the Modern Age Broken Promise: Black Deaths and Blue Ribbons  Derrick D. McKisick 13. A Tale of Two Cities: A Divide of White and Black Non-Unification  Erica L. Bumpers 14. Living in a Warzone  Jaquial Durham 15. Police Brutality in North Charleston, South Carolina: Somebody Has to Say Something  Antonio L. Ellis and Eddie Vanderhorst 16. An Inspired Protest: Notes from Baton Rouge 2016 Protests  Deleon M. Wilson 17. We Don’t Want No Trouble: Inspiring White Accomplices and Solidarity in the Age of All Lives Matter  Taharee A. Jackson 18. On the Frontlines: The Role of Social Media in the Charlotte Protests  Tiffany Hollis 19. Truths We Don’t Share  Erin Dreeszen 20. Under-Educated and Over-Adjudicated  Jemimah L. Young 21. The Role of Faith in Advocating for Black Minds  Rebecca A. Neal and Idara Essien 22. Blacklivesmatter, But Only So Much? Evaluating Per Pupil Expenditures in Two Detroit Metropolitan School Districts  Amber C. Bryant 23. Us Versus Them: Charter Schools, Vouchers, and the New Segregation  Lawrence Baines, Jennie Hanna and Stacey Hill 24. Policing the School  Kerri J. Tobin and Stephen M. Lentz 25. The Hardened Heart  Jeff Frank 26. Alternatives to Over Utilizing Law Enforcement in Our Schools: Hearing from Administrators & Teachers in Milwaukee County Schools  Randa Suleiman and Jim Hollar 27. Education, Economics & Segregation in Baton Rouge  John Williams, III, Amber C. Bryant and Chance W. Lewis 28. What Does It Mean to be United?  Clarice Thomas and Martha Donovan 29. Wounds and Band-Aids in a Divided Society  Jie Yu 30. White Matters  Aaron J. Griffen

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Book SynopsisThe focus of Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World is on urban hierarchies and interactions in large geographical areas rather than on individual cities. Based on a painstaking examination of archaeological and epigraphic evidence relating to more than 1,000 cities, the volume offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of Roman Gaul, North Africa, Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In addition it examines the transformation of the settlement systems of the Iberian Peninsula and the central and northern Balkan following the imposition of Roman rule. Throughout the volume regional urban configurations are examined from a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from climate and landscape, administration and politics, economic interactions and social relationships all the way to region-specific ways of shaping the townscapes of individual cities.Trade Review"The relevance of these contributions to the study of regional urban systems across the Roman world is demonstrated not only by the authors’ discussions, but also by the wealth of analytic data, tables, catalogues and appendices supplementing many of these texts. Undoubtedly, the volume provides new information that will be of use to anyone working on the urbanism, economic and socio-political history of the Roman Empire, striking a good balance between archaeological and ancient historical standpoints." - Niccolò Mugnai, University of Oxford, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.01.29 ''This volume successfully champions the ‘regional perspective’ as a fruitful way to analyse the process of urbanisation in the Roman period. The adoption of multiple scales allows the publication to account for the diversity of urban developments, while paying due attention to both pan-imperial and region-specific factors. The publication makes it evident that a number of important insights would have been missed if urbanisation studies remained limited to research on single cities. The larger scale and the systemic context provided by the volume allow for more complex observations about economic integration and about the nature of contacts between individual cities. The volume’s key conclusions about provincial urbanisation and the data it assembles will pave the way for further work on cities in the Roman world.'' - Pawel Borowski, in: The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Luuk de Ligt and John Bintliff 2 A World of 200 Oppida: Pre-Roman Urbanism in Temperate Europe  Manuel Fernández-Götz 3 The Size Distribution of Self-governing Cities in the North-Western Provinces: Trends and Anomalies  Frida Pellegrino 4 The Roman ‘Small Towns’ in the Massif Central (civitates of the Arverni, Vellavii, Gabali, Ruteni, Cadurci and Lemovices): Methodology and Main Results  Florian Baret 5 Towns, Roads and Development Dynamics in the Territory of the Arverni in Roman Times (Auvergne, France)  Frédéric Trément, Florian Baret, Marion Dacko, Jérôme Trescarte, Maxime Calbris, Lise Augustin and Guy Massounie 6 Urbanisation of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Period: Choices, Impositions and ‘Resignation’ of the Newcomers  Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez 7 The Urban Landscape of Roman Central Adriatic Italy  Frank Vermeulen 8 The Impact of Roman Rule on the Urban System of Sicily  Luuk de Ligt 9 Roman Towns and the Settlement Hierarchy of Ancient North Africa: A Bird’s-Eye View  Matthew Hobson 10 A Diachronic and Regional Approach to North African Urbanism  David Stone 11 Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa  Paul Scheding 12 Urbanisation and Population Density: The Case of the ‘Small Municipia’ in the Balkan and Danube Provinces  Damjan Donev 13 Between the River and the Fort: Applying Critical Regionalism to Roman Towns in the Pannonian Basin  Dragana Mladenovic 14 Urban Networks in Early Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace  Michalis Karambinis 15 Regional Perspectives on Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Roman Asia Minor  Rinse Willet 16 From Mountain to Coastal Plain: Settings of Settlements and Stages of Urbanisation in Ancient Lycia  Frank Kolb Index

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