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Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West : Care of the Self / ed. by Gregory Bracken.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Cities ; 14Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048535514
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76095 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Western World as Utopia? -- 2 How Does Space Have Meaning? -- 3 Transforming the Self in Contemporary Korean Ki Suryŏn (氣修練) -- 4 The Relationship between Architecture and Ritual in the Hindu Crematorium -- 5 New Bodies in Cities -- 6 Family, Everyday Life, and the Making-up of Society -- 7 Mental Health Scenario of Asian Americans -- 8 ‘Care of the Self’ and Discipline in Smart Cities -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: This collection of essays examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world experiences its new urban turn. An urbanized world should be an improving place, one that is better to live in, one where humans can flourish. This book examines contemporary practices of care of the self in cities in Asia and the West, including challenges to citizenship and even the right to the city itself. Written by a range of academics from different backgrounds (from architecture and urbanism, anthropology, social science, psychology, gender studies, history, and philosophy) their trans- and multidisciplinary approaches shed valuable light on what are sometimes quite old problems, leading to fresh perspectives and news ways of dealing with them. One thing that unites all of these papers is their people-centred approach, because, after all, a city is its people.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Western World as Utopia? -- 2 How Does Space Have Meaning? -- 3 Transforming the Self in Contemporary Korean Ki Suryŏn (氣修練) -- 4 The Relationship between Architecture and Ritual in the Hindu Crematorium -- 5 New Bodies in Cities -- 6 Family, Everyday Life, and the Making-up of Society -- 7 Mental Health Scenario of Asian Americans -- 8 ‘Care of the Self’ and Discipline in Smart Cities -- Afterword -- Index

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This collection of essays examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world experiences its new urban turn. An urbanized world should be an improving place, one that is better to live in, one where humans can flourish. This book examines contemporary practices of care of the self in cities in Asia and the West, including challenges to citizenship and even the right to the city itself. Written by a range of academics from different backgrounds (from architecture and urbanism, anthropology, social science, psychology, gender studies, history, and philosophy) their trans- and multidisciplinary approaches shed valuable light on what are sometimes quite old problems, leading to fresh perspectives and news ways of dealing with them. One thing that unites all of these papers is their people-centred approach, because, after all, a city is its people.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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