Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs
Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs
Hern, Matt
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9781788738170, Type: Hardcover ,
join & start selling
description
ating Outside the Outside presents an urgently needed, theoretically sophisticated street-level perspective on some of the most pertinent ongoing critical debates about life and politics in our decentered suburban world."
--Roger Keil, author of Suburban Planet

Modern "sub-urbs" as a place of vibrancy, conflict and resistance

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself. Today, most of the Western world lives on the city outskirts. Yet these neighborhoods that once offered security and respite from the perceived dangers of the city center have been radically transformed in the last few decades to poor, working-class and racialized communities. Outside the Outside maps these changes and argues for a revival of the social life of the city as a whole.

Hern shows how language that relegates parts of the urban to the "outside" and designates other parts as the "center" echoes colonial forms of domination. This should come as no surprise in an era when communities are forced onto the periphery and beyond by gentrification.

With on-the-ground reportage in, among other places, Vancouver, Portland, London, Ferguson and Rabat, Hern demonstrates how we need to challenge our misconceptions and see the "sub-urbs" as vibrant places of resistance and regeneration and to celebrate the movement, circulation and difference to be found there.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

City Walls

by Estleman, Loren D.

Hardcover /Library Binding

$32.33

It's Always Wonderful at Central ...

by Casals, Andrea

Hardcover /Hardcover

$19.59

Bred by the Slums 3: ...

by Ghost

Paperback /Paperback

$12.26

listens & views

TROMBONE 1897 - 1911

by PRYOR,ARTHUR / SOUSA

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$16.75

I'M YOURS LORD

by JOHNSON,WILLIE

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.75

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group