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Publics and their Problems: Notes on the Remaking of the South Bank, London
Cities are full of disputes about organizing public life. These disputes are important for deciding how spaces get used, and they are integral to how publics form and develop. In all sorts of ways they define the potentialities of urban public life. This article tells the story of the Southbank Centre's plans to...
Muslim Hoedowns, Tenuous Language and the Uncertain Lives of an Urban Majority
Drawing upon diverse elements of Islamic thought, this essay examines the notions of gathering and footwork to think through the elaborations of a material sensibility embedded in the everyday navigations of contemporary urban life. From reflections on the surreptitious encounters of African Americans in various...
Making Violence Public: Spatializing (Counter)publicness through the 1993 Sivas Arson Attack, Turkey
This article discusses the relationship between violence and public space in light of a collectively perpetrated and widely televised arson attack that took place in 1993 in Sivas, Turkey, and its recent on‐site commemorations. It draws on critical theoretical perspectives developed since the 1990s to consider...
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Detail from Hanging out at London’s South Bank (photo © Jack Layton, August 2016)
Detail from Nights in Jakarta’s periphery—densities in the hinterlands; migrant housing in Cikarang (photo © Miya Irawati, reproduced with permission)
Detail from an Annual on-site commemoration of the victims of an arson attack in central Sivas (photo © Eray Çaylı, 2 July 2012)