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57 2 Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring “Ich mag Wien, besonders an den Rändern” [“I like Vienna, especially at the edges”] —Unger (2015, 6) “Wo Häuser brennen, brennen auch Menschen” [“Where houses burn, so too do people”] —Affenzeller (2018) Visitors to Vienna consulting the Lonely Planet guide to the city are told that “[a]part from a few well-trodden routes, tourists rarely venture into the mostly residential outskirts […] but if you want to experience the real heartbeat of Vienna” (Bedford 2004, 97), that is where it is to be found — outside the Gürtel, the outer ring road which separates the inner districts from the ones that the working classes streamed into in the nineteenth century and continue to do so.1 The outer district with the highest name- 1 This chapter builds on material from Ingram (2018a), in which Planet Ot- takring is read through the dual lens of precarity and Heimatlosigkeit, the