...: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City Claudio Lomnitz Idioms of Sacrifice in Mexico The cultural history of sacrifice in secular societies did not begin to be written...

... the history of colonial and racial capitalism of the City of Gold. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 7. Invocations of slavery were rhetorical. Without a specific referent (slavery in the Cape, Malawi, or Nigeria, for instance), slavery denotes a variety of exploitative relations...

...-Lines Instant City John Matshikiza There must have been something here, where Johannesburg stands, before the Tgold rush, but it was never recorded in history. So Johannesburg became and remained, by default, an instant city, periodically...

...Vyjayanthi Rao; Erica Robles-Anderson [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The concept of the city...

... City Centers/Peripheral Transmissions: A Conversation with Lincoln Tobier Interviewed by Lisa Cohen L incoln Tobier’s work expresses what he calls “place in concentrated...

... part of the DNA of the urban — cityness. Every city is distinct and so is each discipline that studies it. And yet, if it is to be a study of the urban, it will have to deal with these key features: incompleteness, complexity, and the possibility of making. These take on urbanized formats...

... Zhang Dali’s Dialogue: Conversation with a City Wu Hung Apublic controversy surfaced in Beijing’s newspapers in early 1998. At A its center was an image that had become familiar...

...Dorien Zandbergen This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US...

...Néstor García Canclini © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Néstor García Canclini teaches anthropology and urban culture at the Universidad Autonomia Metropolitana in Mexico City. Among his many works is the recent Ciudad de los viajeros (1996). Borja, Jordi, and Manuel...

... and Medicine in Northern Nigeria.” In D. Cruise O'Brien and C. Coulon, eds., Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam . London: Oxford University Press, 188 -201. Last , M. 1991. “Adolescents in a Muslim City.” Kano Studies Special Issue: 1 -22. Lubeck , P. 1984. “Islamic Networks...

... of scales. 12 For a deeper historical overview of Guatemalan maras ’ evolution, see Levenson 2012 . 13 In 2007 the national police received nearly six hundred reports of homes abandoned to the threat of extortion across Guatemala City. Given the threats that victims never report for fear...

.... The Suffering Body of the City Frédéric Le Marcis Translated by Judith Inggs S ince 1990, parallel to the period of transition to a democratic society, the S AIDS epidemic in South Africa has increased dramatically...

...Ackbar Abbas Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and the City Ackbar Abbas “Space” and “Place” Another luxury...

.... Managing Divided Cities . Keele, U.K.: University of Keele Press. Hall , S. 1991. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” In Anthony D. King, ed., Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Current Debates in Art...

...Sabine I. Gölz Duke University Press 2006 Moscow for Flaneurs: Pedestrian Bridges, Europe Square, and Moskva-City Sabine I. Gölz On a sunny afternoon in early September 2001, having...

...Keller Easterling [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 planetary commons pluriverse urban whiteness This issue of Public Culture invites contributors and readers to consider space that is “other than ‘the city.’ ” This peculiar locution...

... the distribution of water through pipes and that threatens broader power arrangements. 2016 cities climate changes housing politics water Specters of rationing haunt metro São Paulo. Drinking water supplies have plunged to historic and dangerous lows. Overall water use has been slashed by a fifth...

... of the commute involves a variety of barriers both physical and psychological. Ultimately, the family has come to feel like strangers in the very city they call home, or perhaps it is the city that has been transformed into a place they can no longer recognize. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018...

... through construction and demolition and by being in circulation. By looking more closely at the history of the machine globally and in India, its deployment at sites of demolitions, and its end point in Delhi’s scrap markets, this article uncovers the diverse relationship the machine has with the city...