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Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement
with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work,
classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume
demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies,
politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range
of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation,
security and suspicion, to more-than-human geographies, soundscapes and
spiritual experience, Encountering the City argues for a more
nuanced understanding of how the concept of 'encounter' is used. This
interdisciplinary collection thus provides an insight into how scholars'
writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept
of encounter through empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia,
Australia, Europe, North America and South America. These cases go
beyond conventional accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how
encounters destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together
complex temporalities, materialise power and transform political
relations. In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the
forms of regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking
place of urban encounter. Encountering the City is a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.