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Overview"In The Construction of Equality, Jennifer Mack shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the Swedish city's built environment ""from below."" Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation, and interviews, Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer MackPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm ISBN: 9780816698714ISBN 10: 0816698716 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 30 October 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: Urban Design from Below 1. Standards and Separatism: The Swedish Million Program, Syriac Enclaves, and Equality 2. Visible Cities, Invisible Citizens: Service and Citizenship in the Centrum 3. Making Mesopotälje: Sacred and Profane “Diaspora Space” in the City 4. “Södertälje Is a Theater”: The Performance of Propriety and Ritual Infrastructure 5. Greetings from Hollywood! Enclaves, Participation, and Dialogue from the Ghetto to the Mansion 6. Safety in Numbers: Tolerance and Norms in Syriac Design Conclusion: The New Periphery Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe Construction of Equality is a timely and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and spatial politics of immigration and suburban development in Europe from the postwar period to the present, admirably complicating and enriching our understanding of both Europe and the Middle East. --Sheila Crane, University of Virginia The first Syriacs--members of a Christian minority from Turkey and the Middle East--arrived in Sweden as refugees a half-century ago. Jennifer Mack has been notably versatile in combining participant observation with a wide range of other materials to offer this rich portrayal of the community in its changing habitat. At a time of dramatic crisis reporting about new refugee streams, it is good to learn about how one group has made its way over time. --Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds Its approach to the Swedish welfare state, social democratic urban planning, and basic ideas on migration policies is thought-provoking and raises many important questions. -EuropeNow Journal The Construction of Equality is a timely and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and spatial politics of immigration and suburban development in Europe from the postwar period to the present, admirably complicating and enriching our understanding of both Europe and the Middle East. -Sheila Crane, University of Virginia The first Syriacs-members of a Christian minority from Turkey and the Middle East-arrived in Sweden as refugees a half-century ago. Jennifer Mack has been notably versatile in combining participant observation with a wide range of other materials to offer this rich portrayal of the community in its changing habitat. At a time of dramatic crisis reporting about new refugee streams, it is good to learn about how one group has made its way over time. -Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds The Construction of Equality is a timely and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and spatial politics of immigration and suburban development in Europe from the postwar period to the present, admirably complicating and enriching our understanding of both Europe and the Middle East. -Sheila Crane, University of Virginia The first Syriacs-members of a Christian minority from Turkey and the Middle East-arrived in Sweden as refugees a half-century ago. Jennifer Mack has been notably versatile in combining participant observation with a wide range of other materials to offer this rich portrayal of the community in its changing habitat. At a time of dramatic crisis reporting about new refugee streams, it is good to learn about how one group has made its way over time. -Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds Author InformationJennifer Mack is researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University and at the School of Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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