Imagining cities, others Strangers, contingency and fear
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the constellation of fear and the social forces, assumptions and images that construct it, and explore two images and ideas of the city, around which the social theoretical tradition has revolved, both of which are linked in some way to the ideal of the metropolis and the counterideal of the stranger.
Abstract: This paper explores the constellation of fear and the social forces, assumptions and images that construct it. The paper’s underlying presupposition is that there are many locations for fear that run parallel to one another in modernity, one of which will be discussed here – the city. It begins by exploring two images and ideas of the city, around which the social theoretical tradition has revolved, both of which are linked in some way to the ideal of the metropolis and the counter-ideal of the stranger. The stranger invariably accompanies the image of the city, as someone who comes to it from the outside. This co-existence between integration and the experience of being outside generates the inner tension or unease of city life, especially when we are all strangers.
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TL;DR: This paper argued that the standard cosmopolitan extension of democracy to international contexts risks reproducing the exclusion of "outsiders" by nation-states, even democratic ones, and argued that these issues do not necessarily revolve around the category of the citizen (however extended), but around the categories of stranger and outsider.
Abstract: This paper approaches the issue of cosmopolitanism from the vantage point of hospitality. The notion of hospitality throws into relief some issues that are at the heart of political cosmopolitanism, but cannot be addressed by it. This is because these issues do not necessarily revolve around the category of the citizen (however extended), but around the categories of stranger and outsider. The paper critiques the tendency to conflate the categories of the stranger and the outsider and goes on to argue that the standard cosmopolitan extension of democracy to international contexts risks reproducing the exclusion of “outsiders” by nation-states, even democratic ones.
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: Gerrard et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the role of women and men working in the informal economy as a means to get by, and found that they create income out of the experience of homelessness and marginality.
Abstract: Work is central to the production of inequality. This is true for both those in and those out of work. With stubborn unemployment and growing precarity, there are significant numbers of women and men working in the informal economy as a means to get by. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research across three cities, Gerrard offers an important investigation of highly precarious and marginal workers: sellers of homeless street press—The Big Issue in Melbourne and London and Street Sheet in San Francisco. These street presses create income out of the experience of homelessness and marginality: enterprising the margins. This chapter situates this research within the context of poverty in wealthy capitalist nations and the transnational significance of homelessness, learning to work and informal work.
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TL;DR: Big City Blues as discussed by the authors discusses the themes and stories of the articles below, which present different aspects of life in the metropolis, including the over-stimulation of the desensitized urbanite, the wandering flâneur who fortifies him/her self against fragmenting pressures, the explosion of everyday peace into riots, the battles for political and social recognition of identity and property rights, and the f...
Abstract: The advent of the ‘mega’ or world city seems inseparable from the ambivalent and transient experience of modernity – the ideals of liberty, individuality, property, accelerating progress, and, for many, the realities of immobility, anonymity, poverty, and arresting regression. When more than half of the global population pursues an existence within an urban frame, the densities and boundaries of urban spaces swell to fantastical proportions. With the vast increase in size, so the experiences and expectations of the city become more pronounced and profound. This introduction to this special issue of Thesis Eleven, ‘Big City Blues’, discusses the themes and stories of the articles below, which present different aspects of life in the metropolis. The over-stimulation of the desensitized urbanite, the wandering flâneur who fortifies him/her self against fragmenting pressures, the explosion of everyday peace into riots, the battles for political and social recognition of identity and property rights, and the f...
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the Bulwarks of Belief and the Malaises of Modernity are discussed, and the Age of Authenticity is discussed. But the focus is on the past rather than the present.
Abstract: Preface Introduction Part I: The Work of Reform 1. The Bulwarks of Belief 2. The Rise of the Disciplinary Society 3. The Great Disembedding 4. Modern Social Imaginaries 5. The Spectre of Idealism Part II: The Turning Point 6. Providential Deism 7. The Impersonal Order Part III: The Nova Effect 8. The Malaises of Modernity 9. The Dark Abyss of Time 10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief 11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories Part IV: Narratives of Secularization 12. The Age of Mobilization 13. The Age of Authenticity 14. Religion Today Part V: Conditions of Belief 15. The Immanent Frame 16. Cross Pressures 17. Dilemmas 1 18. Dilemmas 2 19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity 20. Conversions Epilogue: The Many Stories Notes Index
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01 Jan 1852
TL;DR: The first issue of Die Revolution, 1852, New York; Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1995, 1999; Transcription/Markup: Zodiac and Brian Basgen Proofed: and corrected by Alek Blain, 2006 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Written: December 1851 March 1852; Source: Chapters 1 & 7 are translated by Saul K. Padover from the German edition of 1869; Chapters 2 through 6 are based on the third edition, prepared by Engels (1885), as translated and published by Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1937; First Published: First issue of Die Revolution, 1852, New York; Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1995, 1999; Transcription/Markup: Zodiac and Brian Basgen Proofed: and corrected by Alek Blain, 2006.
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01 Jan 1978
TL;DR: The third edition of The Routledge Classics edition as discussed by the authors is a translation analytic edition of the translation analytical part of the Third Edition Introduction to the Translation Analytical Part 1. Value and Money 2. The Value of Money as Substance 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes Synthetic Part 4. Individual Freedom 5. The Money Equivalent of Personal Values 6. the Style of Life
Abstract: Acknowledgements Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction to the Translation Analytical Part 1. Value and Money 2. The Value of Money as Substance 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes Synthetic Part 4. Individual Freedom 5. The Money Equivalent of Personal Values 6. the Style of Life Appendix: The Constitution of the Text
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12 Nov 2012
TL;DR: The claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life is the deepest problems of modern life as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The deepest problems of modern life derive from
the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face
of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage,
of external culture, and of the technique of life. The
fight with nature which primitive man has to wage
for his bodily existence attains in this modern
form its latest transformation. The eighteenth century called upon man to free him of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and
in economics. Man’s nature, originally good and
common to all, should develop unhampered. In
addition to more liberty, the nineteenth century
demanded the functional specialization of man
and his work; this specialization makes one
individual incomparable to another, and each of
them indispensable to the highest possible extent.
However, this specialization makes each man themetropolitan phenomena is shifted to that organ
which is least sensitive and quite remote from
the depth of the personality. Intellectuality is thus
seen to preserve subjective life against the overwhelming power of metropolitan life, and intellectuality branches out in many directions and
is integrated with numerous discrete phenomena.
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01 Jan 1981
TL;DR: The second edition of the Second edition of The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems as mentioned in this paper was published in 2001. But it was published only in the UK and was not available in the US.
Abstract: Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems - Domination, Power and Exploitation: An Analysis - Society as Time-Traveller: Capitalism and World History - Time- Space Distanciation and the Generation of Power - Property and Class Society - Time, Labour and the City - Capitalism: Integration, Surveillance and Class Power - The Nation-State, Nationalism and Capitalist Development - The State: Class Conflict and Political Order - Between Capitalism and Socialism: Contradiction and Exploitation - Notes and References - Index
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