Urban Ethics as Research Agenda : outlooks and tensions on multidisciplinary debates / Raúl Acosta [and many others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acosta, Raúl, author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Moral and ethical aspects.

Urbanization.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (243 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, England : Taylor & Francis, 2024.

Summary:

This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities. Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens the lens to include other actors apart from powerful individuals or institutions, paying special attention to activists or civil society organizations that express concerns about collective life. The chapters provide fresh perspectives addressing the various scales that converge in the urban. The uniqueness of each city is, thus, enriched with global patterns of the urban. Local sociocultural characteristics coexist with global flows of ideas, goods and people. The focus on urban ethics sheds light on emerging spaces of human development and the ways in which ethical narratives are used to mobilize and contest them in terms of the good life. This timely book analyses urban ethical negotiations from social and cultural studies, particularly drawing on anthropology, geography and history. This volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers and practitioners interested in ethics and urban studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Researching urban ethics at the dawn of the urban centuryRaúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Gordon WinderChapter 1. Urban sovereignty in a time of crisis: territorialities of governance and the ethics of careDiane E. DavisChapter 2. Urban mobility governance flows: ethical bases of political becomingsRaúl AcostaChapter 3. The political ecology of a diverse urban ethics of marine stewardship in Auckland, Aotearoa New ZealandMarie AschenbrennerChapter 4. Conflictual planning in the Olympic City: Vila Autódromo's experience, Rio de JaneiroFernanda Sánchez, Fabrício Leal de Oliveira, Carlos VainerChapter 5. The transformation of the 'Valongo Complex': New perspectives on the historic port area of Rio de JaneiroClemens van LoyenChapter 6. Restorative justice in Georgia: on the limited recognition of prostitution in Tbilisi 1991-2020Liana Kupreischvili and Guido HausmannChapter 7. Traversing troubled waters: emergent ethics and pandemic politicsJohn ClarkeChapter 8. On the impossibility of collaboration: solidarity, power and loneliness in feminist, workerist and (urban) ethnographic methodologyOlga ReznikovaChapter 9. Voluntary mentoring: relationship-building as an urban-ethical practice in MunichLaura GozzerChapter 10. Sacks and the city. Secondary burials in Naples and New YorkUlrich van LoyenChapter 11. Producing community: An "ethopolitics" of Berlin's crisis-driven urban restructuringMax OttConclusion: Urban ethics as research agendaMoritz Ege, Christoph K. Neumann, Ursula Prutsch.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.