Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East

In today's world, it is crucial to understand how cities and urban spaces operate in order for them to continue to develop and improve. To ensure cities thrive, further study on past and current policies and practices is required to provide a thorough understanding. Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East examines the poetics and politics of city and urban spaces in contemporary South Asia and the Middle East and seeks to shed light on how individuals constitute, experience, and navigate urban spaces in everyday life. This book aims to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the study of city life by engaging disciplines such as urban geography, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, and human geography. Covering key topics such as racism, urban spaces, social inequality, and gender roles, this reference work is ideal for government officials, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Book Series Table of Contents Detailed Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgment Section 1: Literary Representations of City Life and the Fictional Geographic Constructs Chapter 1: Postcolonial Metropolitan Cities Go Feral Chapter 2: Dystopia and Heterotopia Chapter 3: Gender, Caste, and Class in Transnational Urban Spaces Chapter 4: City, Wall, and (Feminist) Dystopia Chapter 5: “Where Do Old Birds Go to Die?” Chapter 6: A Step Forward, Two Steps Backward Section 2: Self-Representation and the Re-Mapping of the Urban Geography Chapter 7: Reshaping Existing Discourses on Urban Spaces Chapter 8: Inside and Outside the Hijab Chapter 9: Reconstructing Urban Spaces in Sushmita Banerjee's Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou Section 3: Ethnographic Representations of Gendered Geographies and Geographies of Gender Chapter 10: Transnational Urban Solidarities Chapter 11: Re-Making the City for Women Chapter 12: A Conceptual Study of Urban Spaces in Bangladesh Chapter 13: Engendering the City Compilation of References About the Contributors Index "Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East examines the poetics and politics of city and urban spaces in contemporary South Asia and the Middle East and seeks to shed light on how individuals constitute, experience, and navigate urban spaces in everyday life. This book aims to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the study of city life by engaging disciplines such as urban geography, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, and human geography. Covering key topics such as racism, urban spaces, social inequality, and gender roles, this reference work is ideal for government officials, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students"-- Provided by publisher Examines the poetics and politics of city and urban spaces in contemporary South Asia and the Middle East and sheds light on how individuals constitute, experience, and navigate urban spaces in everyday life. Key topics covered include racism, urban spaces, social inequality, and gender roles.