Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction: Negotiating Urban Conflicts 9
4. I. Politics of Space: The Modern, the Postmodern and the Postcolonial
5. Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques 15
6. Contested Places and the Politics of Space 29
7. The City as Assemblage. Diasporic Cultures, Postmodern Spaces, and Biopolitics 41
8. Remapping the Geopolitics of Terror: Uncanny Urban Spaces in Singapore 53
9. Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory, and the Loss of Secular Urban Space 67
10. II. Spatializing Identities
11. The Politics and Poetics of Religion: Hindu Processions and Urban Conflicts 85
12. Negotiating the City—Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo 99
13. Negotiating Public Spaces: The Right to the Gendered City and the Right to Difference 113
14. On the Road to Being White: The Construction of Whiteness in the Everyday Life of Expatriate German High Flyers in Singapore and London 125
15. Prostitution—Power Relations between Space and Gender 139
16. III. Imageries of Cities
17. Between Refeudalization and New Cultural Politics: The 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg 155
18. Reflections on a Cartography of the Non-Visible. Urban Experience and the Internet 167
19. Picturing Urban Identities 177
20. Communist Heritage Tourism and its Local (Dis)Contents at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 195
21. Earthquake Recovery and Historic Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts 209
22. IV. Exclusion, Security and Surveillance
23. The Phenomenon of Exclusion 227
24. Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time 235
25. Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques 247
26. Violence Prevention in a South African Township 261
27. Homeland/Target: Cities and the “War on Terror” 277
28. Terrorism and the Right to the Secure City: Safety vs. Security in Public Spaces 289
29. Authors 305