Towards the City of Thresholds. Stavros Stavrides

Towards the City of Thresholds - Stavros Stavrides


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href="#ucfbfa68a-1d70-4e2f-92ef-11420b960619"> Inhabiting rhythms

       Habits, habitation, and otherness

       An experience of the aftermath: inhabiting a “state of exception”

       Can space activate memories of discontinuity?

       PART II

       3. Walter Benjamin’s thresholds

       Traces and individuality

       The flâneur and urban phantasmagoria

       The dialectics of disenchantment

       A “study of thresholds”

       4. Navigating the metropolitan space: walking as a form of negotiation with otherness

       The metaphor of navigation

       Crossing passages to otherness

       Negotiating choreographies

       5. Theatricality: the art of creating thresholds

       Approaching the other

       Distance and democracy

       Distance, difference, and racism

       Four steps towards the different

       Theatrical distance

       Proximate otherness

       Baudelaire and the clown

       The theatrical city

       Neighborhoods and manageable proximity

       PART III

       6. Heterotopias: appropriating Foucault’s geography of otherness

       Power, order, and places

       The spatialization of knowledge

       Spaces of otherness?

       Constitution in turmoil

       Heterotopias as spaces in suspense

       7. Identities and rebellion in Zapatista heterotopias

       Those without a face

       The mask

       Any face

       Heterotopian experiences

       8. The December 2008 youth uprising in Athens: glimpses of a possible city of thresholds

       A spontaneous uprising

       The quest for urban justice

       Identities in crisis and the experience of urban porosity

       Is there life after December?

       PART IV

       9. Squares in movement

       Legitimacy crisis and the role of contemporary communication practices

       “Common space” as threshold space

       Reinventing community

       “We”?

       10. Emerging common spaces as a challenge to the city of crisis

       11. Urban commoning and the city of thresholds

       References

       Index

       About the Author

      Illustrations


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