Claims on the City

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Choreographing the City
Chapter 1: Occupying Bangkok: Performing Rights Across the City in a Series of Unpredictable Flash Mobs in Neoliberal Thailand
Rubkwan Thammaboosadee
Chapter 2: From Confederate Monuments to Black Lives Matter Protests: The Role of Material Culture in Shaping and Reshaping Richmond¿s Racialized Landscape
Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra and Lee Ann Timreck
Chapter 3: Yale: Respect New Haven (New Artwork to Protest an Old University).
Laura A. Macaluso
Chapter 4: Allegory or Algorithm: The Smart City as Monument
Richard Simpson
Part 2: Culturescapes of Rapid Urbanization
Chapter 5: Memory, Nostalgia, and Asakusa in Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Television
Mina Qiao
Chapter 6: Filming the City: Embodying Interruption
Dikshya Karki
Chapter 7: Claiming History, Claiming Present: Muslim Diaspora and Hyderabad City
C.Yamini Krishna
Chapter 8: The Soul of The City: Mindfulness Practice in Hong Kong
Marin Nycklemoe
Chapter 9: Languages of Care: Exploring Articulations of Neglect and Backwardness among Laboring Migrants in Bengaluru
Swathi Shivanand
Chapter 10: Hiking is Caring: ¿Kong Wü and ¿Hang Shan¿ as Concepts to Understand the Changing Sense of Belonging in Hong Kong¿s Rural Landscape
Hui Lok Hang
Part 3: Microhistories of Placemaking
Chapter 11: Popular Experiences and City Making in Brazilian Amazonia: Manaus, 1890-1900
Thais R. S. de Sant¿Ana
Chapter 12: Sufi Shrines in Hyderabad and its Community¿s Claims within The Urban
Amy Phua Mei Yen
Chapter 13: Theatrical Landscapes: Exploring Single Screen Theatres in Ernakulam as Urban Icons and Indicators
Rajarajeshwari Ashok
Chapter 14: Caste of Our Neighbors: Understanding ¿Middle-class¿ Attitudes Towards Caste Through Urban Property in Kolkata
Sreya Sen
Chapter 15: War on Slums: Slum-free City Programs and People¿s Struggles to Stay Put in Visakhapatnam
Indivar Jonnalagadda
Chapter 16: Tribal Aspirations and The City
Elvin Xing Yifu
About the Contributors