1st Edition
Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
Part 1: Configurations of Ethics and the Urban - Concepts and Theories
1. Introduction: Urban Ethics – Conflicts over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
Moritz Ege and Johannes Moser
2. The Habitat of the Subject: Exploring New Forms of the Ethical Imagination
Henrietta Moore
3. The City as a Setting for Collaboration? Tracking the Multiple Scales of Urban Promises
Alexa Färber
Part 2: Shifting Ethics of the Urban: Historical Case Studies
4. Mégapoles, Polyrhythmy, Porosity: Tracing Ideas of Mediterranean Urbanity in Western ScholarlyDdiscourse
Martin Baumeister
5. Urbanity as an Ethic: Reflections on the Cities of the Arab World
Nora Lafi
6. The Fractious Stability of an Immoral Landscape: The Land Walls of Istanbul, 1910 to 1980
Julia Strutz & Christoph Neumann
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bucharest’s Urban Core as a Moral Playground
Daniel Habit
8. 1968 and Beyond. The Urban Struggle on Trial?
Isabelle Doucet
Part 3: Building and Living Ethically – Conflicts over Housing and Architecture
9. Shaping Urban Ethics. The ‘Making-of’ a Collective Housing Project at Berlin’s River Spree
Max Ott
10. Commitment ‒ City ‒ Self. Ethical Self-formations in Munich’s Young Housing Cooperatives
Laura Gozzer
11. Antagonisms and Solidarities in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
12. Ethical Contestation in Architecture for a Creative Singapore
Michaela Busenkell
Part 4: Environmental Justice, Ethics of Care and the Spectacle of Urban Sustainability
13. Reimagining Urban Environmentalisms: A Comparative Framework
Julie Sze
14. Handling Waste through Consensus, Care and Community in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer
Part 5: Protest between Ethics and Politics: Collective Agents of Urban Change
15. Keep the City Clean. The Ambivalent Ethics of Ownership in Urban Routine and Non-Violent Protest in Moscow
Alexander Bikbov
16. Guardians of Torfjanka Park: The Fight for "Our Moscow" and the Understanding of "Ordinary People" in the Current Conjuncture
Olga Reznikova
17. "They are stealing the state": Commoning and the Gilets Jaunes in France
Ida Susser
Biography
Moritz Ege is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen with a research focus on popular culture studies, urban ethnography, conjunctural analysis, and historical anthropology.
Johannes Moser is chair of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Munich University. His research interests include urban anthropology, everyday culture and community studies.
