{"product_id":"claims-on-the-city-situated-narratives-of-the-urban-9781666941609","title":"Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaims 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaims 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Choreographing the City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Occupying Bangkok: Performing Rights Across the City in a Series of Unpredictable Flash Mobs in Neoliberal Thailand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRubkwan Thammaboosadee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: From Confederate Monuments to Black Lives Matter Protests: The Role of Material Culture in Shaping and Reshaping Richmond’s Racialized Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncoronata (Nadia) Inserra and Lee Ann Timreck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Yale: Respect New Haven (New Artwork to Protest an Old University).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura A. Macaluso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Allegory or Algorithm: The Smart City as Monument\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Simpson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Culturescapes of Rapid Urbanization \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Memory, Nostalgia, and Asakusa in Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Television\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMina Qiao\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Filming the City: Embodying Interruption\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDikshya Karki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Claiming History, Claiming Present: Muslim Diaspora and Hyderabad City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC.Yamini Krishna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: The Soul of The City: Mindfulness Practice in Hong Kong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarin Nycklemoe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Languages of Care: Exploring Articulations of Neglect and Backwardness among Laboring Migrants in Bengaluru\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwathi Shivanand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Hiking is Caring: “Kong Wu” and “Hang Shan” as Concepts to Understand the Changing Sense of Belonging in Hong Kong’s Rural Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHui Lok Hang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Microhistories of Placemaking \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Popular Experiences and City Making in Brazilian Amazonia: Manaus, 1890-1900\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThais R. S. de Sant´Ana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Sufi Shrines in Hyderabad and its Community’s Claims within The Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Phua Mei Yen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Theatrical Landscapes: Exploring Single Screen Theatres in Ernakulam as Urban Icons and Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRajarajeshwari Ashok\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Caste of Our Neighbors: Understanding “Middle-class” Attitudes Towards Caste Through Urban Property in Kolkata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSreya Sen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: War on Slums: Slum-free City Programs and People’s Struggles to Stay Put in Visakhapatnam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndivar Jonnalagadda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Tribal Aspirations and The City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElvin Xing Yifu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042038350167,"sku":"9781666941609","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666941609.jpg?v=1750952742","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/claims-on-the-city-situated-narratives-of-the-urban-9781666941609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}