City and Power - Postmodern Urban Spaces in Contemporary Poland

This book is an empirical study of a central European city focused on the political process. The book aims at presenting political practices as a form of the political in the institutional and civic sphere of the city. The cases provided focus on the issues of the urban symbolic sphere, architecture, sports, subcultures and urban movements.

Autorentext

Katarzyna Kajdanek is an Associate Professor at the University of Wroclaw. Her main research interest is the process of urbanisation, urban culture and rural studies. Igor Pietraszewski received a PhD from the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wroc aw. His main research interest is the sociology of culture, music and memory. Jacek Pluta received a PhD from the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wroclaw. His main research interest is urban development, sociology of the public sphere and sociology of culture.

Inhalt

To Leave a Trace on Urban Walls: Youth Cultures in the Third Circulation of Memory in the City - Transformation of Architectural Space in Wroclaw - Bike Power. Cycling movement in urban public sphere - Artists and Power in the Field of (Subsidized) Urban Culture - The Football Paradigm in Wroclaw Urban Policy: the Municipalisation of l sk Wroc aw