Disclosing Elite Ecologies: Methodologies for Doing Urban Elite Research

ISBN-13: 9780367696757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Bas Van Heur; Bassens David

Opis

This book offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites.

Spis treści

1. An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism 2. Making and mapping Britain's "new ordinary elite" 3. The challenge of researching "partial exit" and "rootedness" among upper-middle classes in European cities 4. Naked elites: unveiling embodied markers of superiority through co-performance ethnography in gentrified Brooklyn's Park Slope 5. Contingently elite: affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption 6. Investigating urban elites through fear and security in Porto Alegre 7. Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London's financial district 8. Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies