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After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism book cover

1st Edition

After the Cosmopolitan? Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism

By Michael Keith Copyright 2005
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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After the Cosmopolitan?  argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized. All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in detail: the growth of cultural industries and the marketing of cities social exclusion and violence the nature of the ghetto the... Read more

1. Introduction: Globalisation, Urbanism and Cosmopolitanism Fever  2. The Mirage at the Heart of the Myth? Thinking About the White City  3. After the Cosmopolitan? The Limits of the Multicultural City and the Mutability of Racism  4. The Ghetto: Knowing your Place and the Performative Cartographies of Racial Subordination  5. Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Street Rebels: Looking Inside the Inner City  6. The Street: Street Sensibility?  7. The Cultural Quarter: Globalization, Hybridity and Curating Exotica.  8. Tagging the City: Graffiti Practice and Transcultural Communication  9. The Cartographies of Community Safety. Mapping Danger and Rumours of Risk  10. The Plan Knowing Urbanism: Between the Allure of the Cosmopolitan and the Horror of the Postcolony

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