Urban social capital: civil society and city life

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by Eric M. Uslaner -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Social Capital and City Life -- 1 City Seclusion and Social Exclusion: How and Why Economic Disparities Harm Social Capital -- 2 Social Capital, Social Exclusion and Rehabilitation Policy in the Hungarian Urban Context -- 3 Cooperation and Trust in Urban Residential Communities -- 4 Urban Social Poverty -- 5 City Life and Film: Narratives of Urban Social Capital in Gran Torino -- 6 Staunch: Māori Gangs in Urban New Zealand -- 7 The Care Market: Social Capital and Urban African Funeral Societies -- 8 Social Capital Dynamics in the Post-Colonial Harare Urbanscape -- 9 Urban Development and Social Capital: Lessons from Kathmandu -- 10 Disruptive Social Capital in Los Angeles: (Un)Healthy Socio-Spatial Interactions among Filipino Men Living with HIV/AIDS -- 11 Gender Relations, Migration, and Urban Social Capital in Hong Kong -- 12 Discovering Social Capital among Older Adults in the Urban Communities of Shanghai -- References

This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu. It brings together studies from highly diverse urban settings. Contributors draw on contemporary theory and research in social capital, political economy, urban planning and policy, social movements, civil society and democracy to explore how social norms, networks, connections and ties are created, deployed - and often frayed - under conditions of social complexity, inequality, cultural pluralism, and the ethno-ra