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Overview'Pop-up' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making, pop-up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas, container malls, supper clubs, even pop-up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes of the ‘pop-up’ city? Traversing a wealth of fascinating case studies, Rebranding Precarity shows how pop-up works to rebrand insecurity and encourages us to embrace precarity as the new normal. Revealing how urban crisis has particular temporal and spatial characteristics, defined by uncertainty, instability, fractures and gaps, it illuminates how those markers of crisis have been optimistically reimagined over the last few years, through an examination of seven logics that rebrand insecurity including within housing, labour economies and gentrifying areas. In doing so, it paints a frightening picture of how crisis conditions have become not just accepted, but are in fact desired, in today’s metropolis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ella Harris (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Zed Books Ltd Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9781786999818ISBN 10: 1786999811 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 29 October 2020 Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Pop-up City 1. Immersion 2. Flexibility 3. Interstitiality 4. Secrecy 5. Surprise 6. The Micro 7. The Meantime Pop-up Logics, Precarious Futures: ConclusionsReviews'An important contribution to the discussion on how precarity is shifting from exception to norm, and how cities are transforming in a period after the financial crisis.' Ben Anderson, Durham University An important contribution to the discussion on how precarity is shifting from exception to norm, and how cities are transforming in a period after the financial crisis. * Ben Anderson, Durham University * This is an important book offering a much needed critical engagement with the deployment of pop-up and other temporary strategies as a glamourous mask distracting us from the realities of the new normal of precarious lives and communities. * Susan Luckman, University of South Australia * Author InformationElla Harris is currently a Leverhulme Fellow in the Geography department at Birkbeck, University of London. She has academic expertise in urban cultures of the recession/austerity era, as well as in interactive documentary as a research method. She has published widely on pop-up culture, housing precarity, interactive documentary and compensatory cultures. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |