Mirjam Schaub

Kerstin Evert

Sibylle Peters

Gesa Ziemer

Kathrin Wildner

Paula Hildebrandt

This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials, agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations, interpretations and framings.

Bodies, Agencies, Limitations

Performing Citizenship

Frank Eckardt

Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.

Spaces and Spheres of the Urban

Public Istanbul

Anne Huffschmid

Mexiko-Stadt, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo - überbordende Megastädte in der urbansten Region der Welt. Dieser Band macht wichtige Positionen der lateinamerikanischen Stadtforschung erstmals für eine deutschsprachige Leserschaft zugänglich und liefert damit einen zentralen Beitrag zu einer tatsächlich transnationalen Metropolenforschung. Kultur- wie sozialwissenschaftliche Studien zu Urbanität und eigene konzeptionelle Zugänge reflektieren die Entwicklung städtischer Räumlichkeit im urbanen Lateinamerika. Diese ist geprägt von Konflikten um Territorialität, öffentliche Räume und urbane Imaginarios, von Segregation wie auch von Prozessen kultureller und politischer Partizipation. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Nestor García Canclini, Carlos Monsiváis und Armando Silva.

Neue urbane Szenarien: Öffentlichkeit - Territorialität - Imaginarios

Stadtforschung aus Lateinamerika

Kathrin Wildner

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