Helmuth Berking/Sybille Frank/Lars Frers et al: Negotiating Urban Conflicts (kartoniertes Buch)

Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.

Helmuth Berking holds a chair in sociology at Darmstadt University. His core topics include 'city, space and sites'. Sybille Frank holds a chair in sociology at Darmstadt University. Her core topics include 'city, space and sites'. Lars Frers teaches and researches as professor of social studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He publishes on space, materiality and movement, with a special focus on the establishment of social control, as well as on qualitative methods with a focus on visual, multisensory and mobile methods. Martina Löw (Dr.) has been Professor of Sociology of Planning and Architecture at the Department for Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin since 2013. Her research focuses on sociological theory, urban sociology, space theory and cultural sociology. She is spokesperson of the CRC 1265 Re-Figuration of Spaces. Lars Meier holds a chair in sociology at Darmstadt University. His core topics include 'city, space and sites'. Silke Steets holds a chair in sociology at Darmstadt University. Her core topics include 'city, space and sites'. Sergej Stoetzer, educationalist, was a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Darmstadt University of Technology. He worked at the Institute for Higher Education Research Wittenberg and studied in Halle and Berlin. His research areas are sociology of space/place, perception of (urban) space, surveillance and society, and visual methods.