Chapter 6 Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City 17
7. Chapter 2 Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa 65
8. Chapter 3 At the City’s Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa 94
9. Chapter 4 ‘A Gate, but Leading Where?’ In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi 120
10. Chapter 5 Cosmopolitan Architecture: ‘Deviations’ from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-First-Century Warsaw 141
11. Chapter 6 Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in Venice 170
12. Chapter 7 Haunted by the Past and the Ambivalences of the Present: Immigration and Thessalonica’s Second Path to Cosmopolitanism 194
13. Chapter 8 ‘For Badakhshan – the Country without Borders!’: Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan City in Tajikistan 217
14. Notes on contributors 240
15. INDEX 243