1st Edition
Wounded Cities Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World
List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World 2 The City as a Body Politic Part I The Degradation of Urban Life 3 The Depreciation of Life During Mexico City's Transition into "the Crisis" 4 International Commodity Markets, Local Land Markets and Class Conflict in a Provincial Mexican 5 Rethinking Infrastructure: Siberian Cities and the Great Freeze of January 2001 Part II Crises of Crime and Criminalization 6 How Kingston was Wounded, 7 Wounded Medellin: Narcotics Traffic against a Background of Industrial Decline 8 Global Justice in the Postindustrial City: Urban Activism Beyond the Global-local Split 9 After Drugs and the "War on Drugs": Reclaiming the Power to Make History in Harlem, New York Part III Rapid, Inconsistent Expansion 10 Bangkok, The Bubble City 11 Contemporary Ho Chi Minh City in Numerous Contradictions: Reform Policy, Foreign Capital and the Working Class Part IV Reconstruction and Recovery 12 Belfast: Urban Space, "Policing" and Sectarian Polarization 13 "Healing the Wounds of the War": Placing the War-displaced in Postwar Beirut 14 Wounded Palermo
Biography
Jane Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York. Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York.
