TY - BOOK AU - Petersen,Hans-Christian TI - Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants SN - 9783839424735 PB - transcript Verlag KW - Social Science / Sociology / Urban KW - bisacsh KW - Social Science KW - Social sciences KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the 'exoticization of the ghetto' (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/e84e4438-f565-4374-939e-199697d1c3eb ER -