Kikuko Kashiwagi-Wetzel, Michael Wetzel (Eds.): Interkulturelle Schauplätze in der Großstadt
Reviewed by Prof. Dr. Detlef Baum, 2016-01-14
Kikuko Kashiwagi-Wetzel, Michael Wetzel (Eds.): Interkulturelle Schauplätze in der Großstadt. Kulturelle Zwischenräume in amerikanischen, asiatischen und europäischen Metropolen. Wilhelm Fink Verlag (München) 2015. 238 pages. ISBN 978-3-7705-5663-2. D: 39,90 EUR, A: 41,10 EUR, CH: 51,90 sFr.
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Summary
This book discusses on the one hand very different aspects of reality of big cities and metropolises. On the other hand we find there pictures and fictions of the metropolis. The metropolis is no mono-cultural place – and historically: there was no time, in which we can say, the city is mono-culturally shaped.
The book is bases on a comparative perspective of the European, the Asian and the American city. This comparison makes clear not only clear that the understanding of this what we call a city depends from the specific cultural background of society and social life. This comparison makes also clear, that the discussion in the urban theory and urban research was shaped by the European understanding of the bourgeois city and the development of the bourgeois society sins the 17th century.
The question remains, which logic of integration and exclusion cities develop and which integration potentials the city needs under the condition of its intercultural heterogeneity. And this question is here focussed on the question after the intercultural public spaces as public scenes.
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Prof. Dr. Detlef Baum
Professor em.
Arbeits- u. Praxisschwerpunkte: Gemeinwesenarbeit, stadtteilorientierte Sozialarbeit, Soziale Stadt, Armut in der Stadt
Forschungsgebiete: Stadtsoziologie, Stadt- und Gemeindeforschung, soziale Probleme und soziale Ungleichheit in der Stadt
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Detlef Baum, 2016. Review of:
Kikuko Kashiwagi-Wetzel, Michael Wetzel (Ed.): Interkulturelle Schauplätze in der Großstadt. Kulturelle Zwischenräume in amerikanischen, asiatischen und europäischen Metropolen. Wilhelm Fink Verlag
2015.
ISBN 978-3-7705-5663-2.
In: socialnet Reviews, 2016-01-14. ISSN 2190-9245. Retrieved 2024-12-14 from https://www.socialnet.de/en/reviews/19151.php.
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