Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (eBook, ePUB)

Care of the Self
Redaktion: Bracken, Gregory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world experiences its new urban turn. An urbanized world should be an improving place, one that is better to live in, one where humans can flourish. This collection of essays examines contemporary practices of care of the self in cities in Asia and the West, including challenges to citizenship and even the right to the city itself. Written by a range of academics from different backgrounds (from architecture and urbanism, anthropology, social science, psychology, gender studies, history, and philosophy), their trans- and multidisciplinary approaches shed valuable light on what are sometimes quite old problems, leading to fresh perspectives and new ways of dealing with them. One thing that unites all of these papers is their people-centred approach, because, after all, a city is its people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040782347
• Artikelnr.: 75563154

Autorenporträt

Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Western World as Utopia? Thames Town
Songjiang and New Chinese Residential Habits
2 How Does Space Have Meaning?
A Multifocal Approach to Korean Jimjilbang (???)
3 Transforming the Self in Contemporary Korean Ki Sury?n (???) Water
Wood
and Stone in Two GiCheon (??) DVDs
4 The Relationship between Architecture and Ritual in the Hindu Crematorium
5 New Bodies in Cities Contested Technologies of the Self in Urban India
6 Family
Everyday Life
and the Making-up of Society:A Case Study in Yokohama's Chinatown
7 Mental Health Scenario of Asian Americans: Social and Environmental Determinants of their Well-being and Service Utilization
8 'Care of the Self' and Discipline in Smart Cities: Sensors in Singapore
List of Figures and Tables