Moving Cities Contested Views on Urban Life

ISBN 10: 3658184612 / ISBN 13: 9783658184612

Published by Springer VS, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moving Cities Contested Views on Urban Life
• Publisher: Springer VS
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658184612
• ISBN 13: 9783658184612
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility. The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community, neighbourhood life, uses of public spaces and methodological approaches to urban life such as ethnography.

About the Author

Lígia Ferro is assistant professor at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto. She is also a researcher at the Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto and at the CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.

Marta Smagacz-Poziemska works at the Instytut Socjologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow, Poland.

M. Victoria Gómez is senior lecturer at the Departamento de Análisis Social, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Sebastian Kurtenbach, Dr, is researcher at the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG), Bielefeld University, Germany.

Patrícia Pereira is post-doctoral researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinar de Cięncias Sociais, CICS.NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Juan José Villalón is senior lecturer of sociology at the Departmento de Sociología III (Tendencias Sociales), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain.