1st Edition
Understanding the City through its Margins Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist without its margins, both materially, ideationally, and socially. In this book the margins are, first, the mirrors of the city and, second, a fundamental route through which various centers can legitimate and sustain their power. Contemporary case studies are compared to a number of those from history with the accent on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and engage with the underlying theoretical questions of what is the urban margin and what is marginality in urban society and spaces?
- The City and its Regulations: Unexpected Margins
- Markets and Marginality in Beirut
- The Tremendous Making and Unmaking of the Peripheries in Current Istanbul
- Paradoxical Forms of Urbanity on the Margins? The Kherba: a Vivid Market in a Damaged Section of the Medina of Tunis
- Whose Margins? Marginality, Poverty and the Moral Geography of Pre-Soviet Bukhara
- On the Margins of the City: Izmir Prison in the Late Ottoman Empire
- ‘Texas’: An Off-Centre District at the Heart of Nightlife in Odienné
- The Manyema of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) between Urban Margins and Regional Connections
- On the Margins: Suburban Space and Religious Deviancy in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur
- Ethnic Differentiation and Conflict Dynamics: Uzbeks Marginalization and Non-Marginalization in Southern Kyrgyzstan
André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi
Part I: Space and State Regulation: The Urban Interstices
Frank Mermier
Jean-François Pérouse
Nora Lafi
Jeanine Dağyeli
Ufuk Adak
Part II: Diversity and Moral Policing: Making Claims through Marginalization
André Chappatte
Katharina Zöller
Saskia Schäfer
Aksana Ismailbekova and Baktygul Karimova
Biography
André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi are all at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.