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Diversity and Local Contexts; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Changing Urban Landscape in Albania; Tirana: A Capital City between 'Urban Sprawl' and 'Compact City'; The Communist Anti-urban Policy and Its Legacy; Overcoming Dividing Lines: Access to the Blloku and to Urban Public Space; In Search of a Better Life: Informal Urbanization in the Tirana-Durrës Region; New Paths Towards Legalization, Urbanization and Integration; Conclusions: Good Governance, Cities and Urban Life; Notes; References
3 Post-Socialist Europe and Its "Constitutive Outside": Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research AgendaIntroduction; From Forced Inclusion to Forced Exclusion across the East-West Divide; Post-Socialist Cluj, Romania; Post-Socialist Florence, Italy; Conclusion: Towards a Comparative Ethnography; References; 4 The Containment of Memory in the "Meeting Place": City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe; Introduction; Archives of Cultural Memory; The Hall of Two Names; The Monument of Shared Memory; Conclusions; Notes; References
5 Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal EconomyNew Dynamics in the Discourse About Public Space in Prague; Criticism of Specific Phenomena in Public Spaces; Opinions of the People of Prague on Public Space and Its Users; "Byznys" and "Služba" in Prague Context; Post-Socialist Gateway City; Stolen City; The End of Neoliberalism or Mere Populism?; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation; Myths of Czernowitz/Cernăuți/Chernovtsy/Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi as Imperial FormationThe City Center Revitalization; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Pekić in Light of the Urban Revolution; Notes; References; 8 The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague; Methodological Aspects of the Research; The Period of the Common State of Czechs and Slovaks, and the Situation After 1993; Theoretical Background and the Question of Translation; Relevance of Language and the Slovak-Czech Linguistic Kinship; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
9 Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in NaplesThe Context: An Outline; The Revolutionär Neapels Bürgermeister: New Rulers, Old Broom; Double Standards in a Context of Misgovernance; Conclusion; Notes; References; 10 African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Introduction; Migration; Problems of Racial Discrimination in South Africa; Foreign African Migrants in Port Elizabeth; Demographics; Reasons for Leaving Their Home Country and Coming to South Africa; Manner of Reception and Status of Foreign African Migrants in South Africa
3 Post-Socialist Europe and Its "Constitutive Outside": Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research AgendaIntroduction; From Forced Inclusion to Forced Exclusion across the East-West Divide; Post-Socialist Cluj, Romania; Post-Socialist Florence, Italy; Conclusion: Towards a Comparative Ethnography; References; 4 The Containment of Memory in the "Meeting Place": City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe; Introduction; Archives of Cultural Memory; The Hall of Two Names; The Monument of Shared Memory; Conclusions; Notes; References
5 Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal EconomyNew Dynamics in the Discourse About Public Space in Prague; Criticism of Specific Phenomena in Public Spaces; Opinions of the People of Prague on Public Space and Its Users; "Byznys" and "Služba" in Prague Context; Post-Socialist Gateway City; Stolen City; The End of Neoliberalism or Mere Populism?; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation; Myths of Czernowitz/Cernăuți/Chernovtsy/Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi as Imperial FormationThe City Center Revitalization; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Pekić in Light of the Urban Revolution; Notes; References; 8 The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague; Methodological Aspects of the Research; The Period of the Common State of Czechs and Slovaks, and the Situation After 1993; Theoretical Background and the Question of Translation; Relevance of Language and the Slovak-Czech Linguistic Kinship; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
9 Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in NaplesThe Context: An Outline; The Revolutionär Neapels Bürgermeister: New Rulers, Old Broom; Double Standards in a Context of Misgovernance; Conclusion; Notes; References; 10 African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Introduction; Migration; Problems of Racial Discrimination in South Africa; Foreign African Migrants in Port Elizabeth; Demographics; Reasons for Leaving Their Home Country and Coming to South Africa; Manner of Reception and Status of Foreign African Migrants in South Africa