Description
| Product ID: | 9781786999825 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rebranding Precarity |
| Subtitle: | Pop-up Culture as the Seductive New Normal |
| Authors: | Author: Ella Harris |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Poverty and precarity, Poverty & unemployment, Urban communities, Sociology: work and labour, Political geography, Urban communities, Sociology: work & labour, Political geography, London, Greater London |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores how ‘pop-up culture’ has entrenched precarity in London by normalizing andglamorizing crisis conditions in the aftermath of the 2008 crash. ''Pop-up'' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making, pop-up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas, container malls, supper clubs, even pop-up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes of the ‘pop-up’ city?Traversing a wealth of fascinating case studies, Rebranding Precarity shows how pop-up works to rebrand insecurity and encourages us to embrace precarity as the new normal. Revealing how urban crisis has particular temporal and spatial characteristics, defined by uncertainty, instability, fractures and gaps, it illuminates how those markers of crisis have been optimistically reimagined over the last few years, through an examination of seven logics that rebrand insecurity including within housing, labour economies and gentrifying areas. In doing so, it paints a frightening picture of how crisis conditions have become not just accepted, but are in fact desired, in today’s metropolis. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-29 |
