{"product_id":"the-emancipatory-city-9780761973874","title":"The Emancipatory City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe Emancipatory City\u003c\/b\u003e is a wonderful addition to a growing literature on the public culture of the city. In these spaces, tolerance and intolerance, difference and indifference, transgressions, resistances, and playful spontaneity erupt to give texture to urban life. The book broadens our gaze and deepens our understanding of how cities enable people to express themselves and be free' - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert A Beauregard, New School University, New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho are cities for? What kinds of societies might they most democratically embody? And, how can cities be emancipatory sites? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ambivalent status of urban space in terms of emancipation, democratisation, justice and citizenship is central to recent work in urban geography, `new' cultural geography, critical geography and postmodern planning, as well as literature on urban social justice, public space and the politics of identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking alternative and progressive visions of the emancip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Emancipatory City  - Loretta Lees    Urban (Re)Visions PART ONE: CITIES OF (IN)DIFFERENCE Domesticating Monsters - Susan Ruddick    Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City - Nicholas Fyfe Impurity and the Emancipatory City - Les Back and Michael Keith    Young People, Community Safety and Racial Danger The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities - James DeFilippis and Peter North PART TWO: EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces of Reclaim the Streets - Gavin Brown Inventing New Games - David Pinder    Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City - Gary Bridge Urban Escapades - Quentin Stevens    Play in Melbourne′s Public Spaces PART THREE: UTOPIC TRAJECTORIES The Urban Basis of Emancipation - Jennifer Robinson    Spatial Theory and the City in South African Politics Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism - Matthew Gandy In Search of the Horizon   - Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan    Utopia in The Truman Show and The Matrix Ghosts and the City of Hope - Steve Pile REFLECTIONS  The `Emancipatory′ City? - Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift The Right to the City - David Harvey\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51873990803799,"sku":"9780761973874","price":57.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761973874.jpg?v=1760025743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-emancipatory-city-9780761973874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}