Claims on the city. Situated narratives of the urban.

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Figures
Introduction
	References
Part I: Choreographing the City
Chapter 1: Occupying Bangkok: Performing Rights Across the City in a Series of Unpredictable Flash Mobs in Neoliberal Thailand
	Behind the Scenes
	Turning Point
	City-as-Action
	From Denizens to Citizens
	A Spectacle of Solidarity
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 2: From Confederate Monuments to Black Lives Matter Protests: The Role of Material Culture in Shaping and Reshaping Richmond’s Racialized Landscape
	From the Ashes of the Civil War, a Reimagined White Richmond
	Racializing Richmond’s Urban Space
	Urban Renewal as a Weapon
	Destruction of Richmond’s Black Memorial Landscape
	The Rise of the Black Counternarrative
	The Fires of Iconoclasm Are Lit
	“Rumors of War Wasn’t a Rumor”: Bringing the Monuments Down
	An Occupied Monument
	A Counter-Memorial Vision
	An Inclusive Community Space
	Toward a Democratized Memorial Landscape
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Yale: RESPECT New Haven: (New Artwork to Protest an Old University)
	Public Art of the 1970s
	Breaking Glass and Paving the Way for Change
	Digging Deeper into the Past to Go Forward
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Allegory or Algorithm: The Smart City as Monument
	Allegory
	Algorithm
	Pedagogic Geographies
	“The Text-Book Is the Ford Plant”2
	Experimental Gardens
	The Urban as Monument
	Notes
	References
Part II: Culturescapes of Rapid Urbanization
Chapter 5: Memory, Nostalgia, and Asakusa in Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Television
	Asakusa as Tokyo’s Cultural Past
	The Supernatural Asakusa: Ghosts and Time-Travelling
	Tracing Asakusa’s Landmarks in the Shifting Townscape
	Sweet Home Asakusa: A Spiritual Home
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Filming the City: Embodying Interruption
	Location Field Notes
	Framing Interruption
	Location Kathmandu
	On Location
	Interrupting Mobilities
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Claiming History, Claiming Present: Muslim Diaspora and Hyderabad City
	Hyderabadi Diaspora and Homeland
	Emotional Imaginary of Hyderabad on Digital Sphere
	Expressions of Loss, Violence, and Nostalgia
		Police Action of 1948
		Viswanagaram (Global City)/Cyberabad
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: The Soul of the City: Mindfulness Practice in Hong Kong
	Development of Hong Kong
	Brief History of Humanistic Buddhism and Mindfulness in Hong Kong
	The Development of Humanistic Buddhism
	The Development of Mindfulness
	Process of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
	Experiences of Mindfulness in Hong Kong
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: Languages of Care: Exploring Articulations of Neglect and Backwardness among Laboring Migrants in Bengaluru
	Gods Who Care and Gods Who Don’t
	Backwardness as Contingent
	Schooling as Caregiving
	A Right to be Cared For
	Recollections of Drought, Care, and Neglect
	Memories of Drought in a Place of “Prosperity”
	Who Is Worthy of Care?
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Hiking Is Caring: “Kong Wu” and “Hang Shan” as Concepts to Understand the Changing Sense of Belonging in Hong Kong’s Rural Landscape
	Identifying Sense of Belonging in the Rural Landscape
	Hiking and the Chinese Cultural Concepts on Nature
	Cultivating Rural Landscape and the Impact on Traditional Village Life
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
Part III: Microhistories of Placemaking
Chapter 11: Popular Experiences and City Making in Brazilian Amazonia: Manaus, 1890–1900
	The City as the Representation of the Modern Nation in Early Republican Brazil
	Views and Visions of Manaus during the Boom of the Rubber Industry
	Popular Experiences and Migrant Community Politics in the “Paris of the Tropics”
	Final Considerations
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: Sufi Shrines in Hyderabad and Its Community’s Claims within the Urban
	Vignette/Context
	Hyderabad’s Persianate History and the Significance of Sufism
	The Cessation of the Muslim Dynasty and Founding of the Indian Nation-State
	The Significance of the “Old City”
	A Glimpse into the Scene of a Dargah Today
	The Urs event
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 13: Theatrical Landscapes: Exploring Single-Screen Theaters in Ernakulam as Urban Icons and Indicators
	Film Theaters: Cultural Landmarks and Community Gathering Spaces
	Single-Screen Theaters: Navigating Challenges
	Future of Single-Screen Theaters
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: Caste of Our Neighbors: Understanding “Middle-class” Attitudes toward Caste through Urban Property in Kolkata
	Locating Caste
	Reproduction of Caste Boundaries
	Is Caste Operating Behind the Veil of Class?
	Caste as a Social Construction
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 15: War on Slums: Slum-Free City Programs and People’s Struggles to Stay Put in Visakhapatnam
	At War with the State
	Trans-Local Solidarity
	Beyond the Right to Stay Put
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 16: Tribal Aspirations and the City
	Problematizing the “Tribal” Discourse
	Timepass: Agency, Refusal, and Prefigurative Politics
	Engaging in Prefigurative Politics
	Tribal Aspirations and the ST Status: Boon and Bane
	Hyderabad: Claiming the City
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Index
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