Overview
Demonstrates the link between the personal importance of a particular urban experience in public
Introduces the idea of the situated self
Appeals to those interested in sociology, urban studies, and human geography
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the essence of a particular personal experience within a New York City public space. The principal approach, both theoretical and methodological, is the phenomenological perspective, an in-depth study of such a surprising experience in the real world from the first-person point of view. The book introduces a new concept of “the situated self,” that is, the whole entity of the respondent’s subjective world about his or her particular urban experience in public. It is one’s “being-in-the-word” or lived experience in the real world. Another important feature of “the situated self” is its comprehensive constitution of all certain human traits, perceptions, emotions, bodily sensations, cognition, and behavioral reaction, and their close situational connectivity to one another. By implication, this public experience of “the situated self” is a common denominator shared among regular users of New York City public spaces for making their city life with urban strangers more routinized, predictable, tolerant, and civic.
Reviews
“Plumbing the depths of threatening encounters with strangers, Joong-Hwan Oh discovers the core of city life where ethics and emotions meet. He shows that acts of violence bring out the authentic, inner self, and he reveals the uneasy ambiguity of public space.” (Sharon Zukin, author, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Joong-Hwan Oh is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York. He is the author of Examining the Use of Online Social Networks by Korean Graduate Students: Navigating Intercultural Academic Experiences (2019) and Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media: Messages of the American Social Institutions on a Korean-American Women’s Online Community (2016). He also co-edited five books that pertain to some Korean communities around the world.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Public Encounter in New York City
Book Subtitle: A Phenomenological View on a Sobering Experience
Authors: Joong-Hwan Oh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30964-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30963-2Published: 01 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30966-3Due: 15 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30964-9Published: 31 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 207
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociological Theory, Human Geography