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City, Public Space, and Body by Mahsa Alami Fariman (Hardback)
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Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9781032662381
Published:
18 Nov 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
206 pages
Dimensions:
234mm
Weight:
0.453kgs
Author:
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Bringing together contributions from scholars, artists, and practitioners across diverse geographies, the book explores the entangled relationships between urban space, embodiment, and publicness through a variety of methodological lenses including ethnography, visual and performative arts, and critical urban theory. The book highlights underexplored themes such as gendered vulnerability, spatial justice, post-pandemic public space, and marginalised urban bodies in both Global North and South contexts. By focusing on lived experience and embodied methodologies, the book challenges dominant urban narratives and contributes fresh perspectives on space, care, power, and resistance. It will benefit readers seeking to rethink cities not merely as physical or functional entities, but as affective and contested terrains of social life.Designed for researchers, students, and professionals in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, gender studies, and cultural geography, this collection foregrounds the bodily and sensory dimensions of urban encounters, spatial politics, and everyday life.
About the Author: Mahsa Alami Fariman is an urban researcher and educator with a background in architectural and urban studies. She is Lecturer in Just Urbanism, Societal Diversity, and Citizenship at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. Mahsa holds a PhD in Urban Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her research explores the open city, politics of space, the production of everyday urban life in the Middle East, and feminist urbanism.Chien Lee is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, a role they will take on again this September after concluding their adjunct assistant professorship at National Tsing Hua University. They are also a co-founder and researcher at Gallery Unfold, Kyoto. Their work, rooted in the sociology of art, explores art museums, the experience of arts, photographic mediation, and sensory ethnography. Previous experience includes serving as a commissioned researcher for Theory, Culture & Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.Ahmadreza Hakiminejad is a researcher and academic with a background in architectural, urban, and planning studies. He is a Lecturer in Architecture based in the Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. Ahmadreza's research intersects critical urban studies, politics of space, architectural history and theory, and urban sociology.Asma Mehan is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Architectural Humanities and Urbanism Lab (AHU_Lab) at Texas Tech University. She is the author of The Affective Agency of Public Space: Social Inclusion and Community Cohesion (2024) and has contributed to over 50 peer reviewed publications. Her research spans adaptive reuse, cultural heritage, urban resilience, and placemaking, bridging academia and practice to address contemporary urban challenges.
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