This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a good life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a good life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and good prevail? What is the connection between the good and the just in urban life?
Rather than philosophizing the good and proper life in cities, the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups, taking up cases studies about environmental protection, co-housing schemes, political protest, heritage preservation, participatory planning, collaborative art production, and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights, ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit, political and programmatic.
Chapters 1 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Part 1: Configurations of Ethics and the Urban - Concepts and Theories
1. Introduction: Urban Ethics Conflicts over the Good and Proper Life in
Cities
2. The Habitat of the Subject: Exploring New Forms of the Ethical
Imagination
3. The City as a Setting for Collaboration? Tracking the Multiple
Scales of Urban Promises Part 2: Shifting Ethics of the Urban: Historical
Case Studies
4. Mégapoles, Polyrhythmy, Porosity: Tracing Ideas of
Mediterranean Urbanity in Western ScholarlyDdiscourse
5. Urbanity as an
Ethic: Reflections on the Cities of the Arab World
6. The Fractious Stability
of an Immoral Landscape: The Land Walls of Istanbul, 1910 to 1980
7. The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bucharests Urban Core as a Moral Playground
8.
1968 and Beyond. The Urban Struggle on Trial? Part 3: Building and Living
Ethically Conflicts over Housing and Architecture
9. Shaping Urban Ethics.
The Making-of a Collective Housing Project at Berlins River Spree
10.
Commitment City Self. Ethical Self-formations in Munichs Young Housing
Cooperatives
11. Antagonisms and Solidarities in Housing Movements in
Bucharest and Budapest
12. Ethical Contestation in Architecture for a
Creative Singapore Part 4: Environmental Justice, Ethics of Care and the
Spectacle of Urban Sustainability
13. Reimagining Urban Environmentalisms: A
Comparative Framework
14. Handling Waste through Consensus, Care and
Community in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Part 5: Protest between Ethics
and Politics: Collective Agents of Urban Change
15. Keep the City Clean. The
Ambivalent Ethics of Ownership in Urban Routine and Non-Violent Protest in
Moscow
16. Guardians of Torfjanka Park: The Fight for "Our Moscow" and the
Understanding of "Ordinary People" in the Current Conjuncture
17. "They are
stealing the state": Commoning and the Gilets Jaunes in France
Moritz Ege is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen with a research focus on popular culture studies, urban ethnography, conjunctural analysis, and historical anthropology.
Johannes Moser is chair of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Munich University. His research interests include urban anthropology, everyday culture and community studies.
