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Author:   Sybille Frank (TU Darmstadt, Germany) ,  Lars Meier (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367231262

ISBN 10:   0367231263
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   31 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Dwelling in Mobile Times: Places, Practices and Contestations 2. Seeing Residential (im)mobilities in New York City 3. ‘Almost like I am in Jail’: Homelessness and the Sense of Immobility in Cleveland, Ohio 4. Dwelling in the Temporary: The Involuntary Mobility of Displaced Georgians in Rented Accommodation 5. Ephemeral Urban Topographies of Swedish Roma: On Dwelling at the Mobile–Immobile Nexus 6. Multi-local Lifeworlds: Between Movement and Mooring 7. Dwelling in Different Localities: Identity Performances of a White Transnational Professional Elite in the City of London and the Central Business District of Singapore 8. Dwelling-in-motion: Indian Bollywood Tourists and Their Hosts in the Swiss Alps 9. Diasporic Daughters and Digital Media: ‘willing to go anywhere for a while’

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Sybille Frank, Prof Dr phil., is Professor for Urban Sociology and the Sociology of Space at the Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She has held positions as guest professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt, as junior professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, as Visiting Professor for Research Activities at La Sapienza University, Rome, and as City of Vienna Visiting Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space at the Technical University Vienna. In 2016 Frank was a visiting researcher at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne and at the African Studies Unit of the New School of African and Gender Studies, University of Cape Town. Her work focuses on urban studies, tourism and heritage studies, comparative city research, and on the sociology of space and place. Recent publications include: Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment (ed., with Silke Steets, Routledge 2010). Lars Meier is Guest Professor for Urban and Regional Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on social inequalities and diversities, urban studies, globalization theory and qualitative methods. At the moment he is working in a research project on poverty in times of crisis.

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