1st Edition

Coexistence in the Urban Everyday Interdisciplinary Perspectives Toward New Understandings

Edited By Eeva Puumala, Samu Pehkonen Copyright 2027
250 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Using a novel interdisciplinary focus, this title examines cities as sites of coexistence where different ideas, discourses, histories, and people are constantly brought together in the course of everyday life. While the proximity of “difference” has been discussed as a key feature in urban life, its various meanings and the way in which people perceive and make sense of diversity and the... Read more

1: Introduction: Social Complexity in the City

Eeva Puumala and Samu Pehkonen

 

2: Cities and Coexistence: A Complexity-informed Approach

Eeva Puumala, Ebru Șevik, Bruno Lefort, Johanna Hokka, Anna Sofia Suoranta, Karim Maïche, Nina Kolarzik, Marjukka Ajakainen and Samu Pehkonen

 

3: Rethinking Coexistence with the Everyday

Bruno Lefort

 

4: Affective Placemaking: Unpacking the Relational and Emotional Dynamics of Urban

Ebru Șevik and Johanna Hokka

 

5: Everyday Emotions and Urban Coexistence: An Experimental Journey into the Psychophysiology of Lived Experience

Ruhoollah Akhundzadeh and Heini Saarimäki

 

6: The Politics of Looking: Gaze as Silent Negotiation in Urban Spaces?

Karim Maïche

 

7: Tightening and Loosening Urban Space: Perspectives on Young People’s Everyday Negotiations

Anna Sofia Suoranta

 

8: Disruptive Encounters: An Affective Analysis of the Unexpected in the City

Johanna Hokka

 

9: Sharing the Urban Everyday: Toward an Emergent Sense of Community

Eeva Puumala

 

10: Beyond Conclusion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives towards New Understandings of Coexistence

Eeva Puumala and Samu Pehkonen

Biography

Eeva Puumala is a senior research fellow in Social Policy in the Unit of Social Research at Tampere University, Finland.
Samu Pehkonen is a senior research fellow in Social Policy in the Unit of Social Research at Tampere University, Finland.