ABSTRACT
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis.
The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in constant tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban societies confront, undergo and overcome turbulence and difficulties in time and space. Contributions drawing on theoretical reflections and empirical accounts—from Argentina, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the UAE, the UK, the USA and Vietnam—give insights into plural occurrences of the unsettled, which might tie down or unleash transformative, liberatory and emancipatory potentials.
This book is for students, professionals and researchers interested in the uncertainties, foundations, disturbances, inconsistencies, residuals and blind fields, which constitute the urban both as lived space and as social, cultural and political ideal.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|15 pages
Urban Space Unsettled
part I|88 pages
Urban Routines
chapter 3|14 pages
Vietnamese Hip Hop Don't Stop
chapter 4|12 pages
Unsettled ‘Publicness' and the Embodied Appropriation of Iktinou Street in Thessaloniki
chapter 6|11 pages
(Un)settling Remembrance in Public Space
chapter 7|13 pages
Berlin's Neighborhoods in the Tourist Trap? Local Routines Unsettled by New Urban Tourism
part II|88 pages
Urban Temporalities
chapter 12|13 pages
From Cleaning to Cleansing
chapter 13|13 pages
The Gentrification of Chicago's Cabrini Green and the Temporalities of Urban Change
chapter 14|13 pages
‘And the Straw Cottage to a Palace Turns'
part III|78 pages
Urban Contestations