The Margins Of City Life

Author : John M. Merriman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195064380
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Margins of City Life written by John M. Merriman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the social margins of city life - the "faubourgs", or suburbs, where rural migrants and the labouring poor of French cities congregated in growing numbers in the first half of the 19th century. The text examines the cultural and social traditions which took root in these areas.

Author : William Boyle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643134035
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Margins written by William Boyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There’s Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava’s son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey Baldini, a college dropout who’s returned to the old neighborhood, purposeless and drifting; Donna Rotante, Donnie’s ex-wife, still reeling from the suicide of their teenage son; Mikey’s mother, Rosemarie, also a widow, who hopes Mikey won’t fall into the trap of strong arm work; and Antonina Divino, a high school girl with designs on breaking free from Brooklyn. Uniting them are the dead: Mikey’s old man, killed over a gambling debt, and Donnie and Donna’s poor son, Gabe. These characters cross paths in unexpected ways, guided by coincidence and the pull of blood. There are new things to be found in the rubble of their lives, too. The promise of something different beyond the barriers that have been set out for them. This is a story of revenge and retribution, of facing down the ghosts of the past, of untold desires, of yearning and forgiveness and synchronicity, of the great distance of lives lived in dangerous proximity to each other. City of Margins is a Technicolor noir melodrama pieced together in broken glass.

Author : Michele Lancione
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317063996
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Life at the Margins written by Michele Lancione and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic works presented in the book trace the assemblage of marginality in multiple case-studies encompassing the Global North and South. These works are united by the approach developed in the book, characterised by the refusal of a priori definitions and by a post-human and grounded take on the assemblage of life. The result is a nuanced attention to the potential expressed by everyday articulations and a commitment to produce a processual, vitalist and non-normative cultural politics of the margins. The reader will find in this book unique challenges to accepted and authoritative thinking, and provides new insights into researching life at the margins.

Author : Javier Auyero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190221445
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence at the Urban Margins written by Javier Auyero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674955202
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women on the Margins written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.

Author : Bloch, Alice
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447319370
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living on the Margins written by Bloch, Alice and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or ‘irregular’) migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.

Author : Olga Sendra Ferrer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487538359
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barcelona, City of Margins written by Olga Sendra Ferrer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. This space of dissent took shape in the margins of what is considered the official space of the city of Barcelona, revealing the interconnection of urbanism, literature, and photography in the formation of the political, social, and cultural movements to come in the 1970s. Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that occur from peripheral zones – those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization. In search of the origins of the protest movements and counter culture that would come in the final years of the Franco regime, Barcelona, City of Margins asserts the value of urban movement and cultural practice as a challenge to the spatial and urbanistic regime of Francoism.

Author : Erik Harms
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816656053
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saigon's Edge written by Erik Harms and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live.

Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084522X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margins and Metropolis written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the provinces. She evokes the ideology and culture of the center by examining different aspects of the imperial court, including diplomacy, ceremony, intellectual life, and relations with the church. Particular topics treat the transmission of mathematical manuscripts, the burning of offensive material, and the church's role in distributing philanthropy. Herrin contrasts life in the capital with provincial life, tracing the adaptation of a largely rural population to rule by Constantinople from the early medieval period onward. The letters of Michael Choniates, archbishop of Athens from 1182 to 1205, offer a detailed account of how this highly educated cleric coped with life in an imperial backwater, and demonstrate a synthesis of ancient Greek culture and medieval Christianity that was characteristic of the Byzantine elite. This collection of essays spans the entirety of Herrin's influential career and draws together a significant body of scholarship on problems of empire. It features a general introduction, two previously unpublished essays, and a concise introduction to each essay that describes how it came to be written and how it fits into her broader analysis of the unusual brilliance and longevity of Byzantium.

Author : Colin McFarlane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520382234
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the City written by Colin McFarlane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.