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The Places Where Community Is Practiced

How Store Owners and Their Businesses Build Neighborhood Social Life

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Authors:
  1. Anna Steigemann

    1. Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft (SRG)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 1-11Open Access
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  3. The Meso-Level: Social Life and Trade on a Metropolitan Shopping Street

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 13-48Open Access
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  4. Theories of the Ground: The Sensitizing Theoretical Concepts

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 49-80Open Access
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  5. Realities on the Ground: Sampling Process and Methodology

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 81-111Open Access
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  6. Grounding the Social Life Worlds – The Case Businesses’ Material Space and Social Context

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 113-176Open Access
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  7. Businesses as Spaces where Community is Practiced? The Socio-Spatial Features for “talking about everything,” “coming down,” and “staying in touch”

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 177-242Open Access
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  8. Store Owners that Offer “More” – Public Characters on Changing Karl-Marx-Straße

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 243-297Open Access
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  9. Conclusion: “Lifting the curtain” of Karl-Marx-Straße’s Places where Community is Practiced

    • Anna Steigemann
    Pages 299-310Open Access
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 311-325
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About this book

In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places where neighborly interactions still take place and to how these interactions affect local community building. She illuminates and explores the ordinary everyday interactions and social practices in and around shops and gastronomic facilities on a shopping street in Berlin-Neukölln, revealing how these businesses are important places where community is practiced, but also why they are increasingly threatened by commercial and residential gentrification.

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  • Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Anna Steigemann

About the author

Dr. Anna Steigemann is an Urban Sociologist and works as an Assistant Professor at the Chair of International Urbanism and Design at Technical University Berlin. 


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