| Contents |
Occupying Bangkok : performing rights across the city in a series of unpredictable flash mobs in neoliberal Thailand / Rubkwan Thammaboosadee -- From Confederate monuments to Black Lives Matter protests : the role of material culture in shaping and reshaping Richmond's racialized landscape / Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra and Lee Ann Timreck -- Yale : Respect New Haven (new artwork to protest an old university) / Laura A. Macaluso -- Allegory or algorithm : the smart city as monument / Richard Simpson -- Memory, nostalgia, and Asakusa in contemporary Japanese cinema and television / Mina Qiao -- Filming the city : embodying interruption / Dikshya Karki -- Claiming history, claiming present : Muslim diaspora and Hyderabad City / C.Yamini Krishna -- The soul of the city : mindfulness practice in Hong Kong / Marin Nycklemoe -- Languages of care : exploring articulations of neglect and backwardness among laboring migrants in Bengaluru / Swathi Shivanand -- Hiking is caring : "Kong Wu" and "Hang Shan" as concepts to understand the changing sense of belonging in Hong Kong's rural landscape / Hui Lok Hang -- Popular experiences and city making in Brazilian Amazonia : Manaus, 1890-1900 / Thais R. S. de Sant'Ana -- Sufi shrines in Hyderabad and its community's claims within the urban / Amy Phua Mei Yen -- Theatrical landscapes : exploring single screen theatres in Ernakulam as urban icons and indicators / Rajarajeshwari Ashok -- Caste of our neighbors : understanding "middle-class" attitudes towards caste through urban property in Kolkata / Sreya Sen -- War on slums : slum-free city programs and people's struggles to stay put in Visakhapatnam / Indivar Jonnalagadda -- Tribal aspirations and the city / Elvin Xing Yifu. |
| Abstract |
"Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book captures a snapshot of humane, subjective, and emotive facets of cities, studied through microhistories, social movements, and urban cultures"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Claims on the city Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024] 9781666941616 |
| LCCN | 2023040439 |
| ISBN | 9781666941609 |
| ISBN | 1666941603 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
