The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9783319642888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 575 str.

Italo Pardo; Giuliana B. Prato

Opis

These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 — Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato, Introduction: Urban Ethnography Matters

(PART I) Paradigmatic Reflections

Chapter 2 — Moshe Shokeid, From Jaffa to New York: The Scope of Urban Anthropology

Chapter 3 — Italo Pardo, Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An Italian Ethnography

Chapter 4 — Giuliana B. Prato, Rethinking the City as Urban Community: Views from South Europe

Chapter 5 — Jerome Krase, The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography: Blessing or Curse?

 (PART II) Everyday Practices and Challenges

Chapter 6 — Janaki Abraham, The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India

Chapter 7 — Gary Armstrong and  James Rosbrook-Thompson, The Beginnings and the Ends: A ‘Superdiverse’ London Housing Estate

Chapter 9 — Fran Markowitz, Betwixt and Between in Beer-Sheva: Consumption and Chronotopes in the Negev

(PART III) Coping with Economic and Political Agendas

Chapter 10 — Manos Spyridakis, Shipbuilding Decline and Dubious Futures: A Greek Ethnography of Creative Destruction

Chapter 11 — Judy Arnold, Navigating the Seas of the World of Unemployment in America

Chapter 12 — Judith N. DeSena, ‘Swimming against the Tide’: Working Class Discourse on Gentrification in Northern Brooklyn

Chapter 13 — László Kürti, The Plow and the Stallion: Political Turmoil in a Working-class District of Budapest

Chapter 14 — Corine Védrine, From the Ban on Enjoyment to the Injunction to Enjoy: The Post-industrial City and its New Spaces of Control

Chapter 16 — Dolores Koenig, Multiple Positionality: A Challenge for West African Urbanists

Chapter 17 — Michel Rautenberg, The Strength of Weak Heritages: Urbanity, Utopias and the Commitment to Intangible Heritage

Chapter 18 — Iain Lindsay, Sport and the City: Olympic Games and the Reimagining of East London

Chapter 19 — Kamel Labdouni, A Revolution of the Urban Lifestyle in China? Urban Politics and Community Experience in Harbin

(PART V) Change and Grassroots Dynamics

Chapter 20 — Lucy Koechlin and Till Förster, Secondary Cities and the Formation of Political Space in West and East Africa 

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Chapter 22 — Cynthia Gonzalez, Urban Ethnography: Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us

Chapter 23 — Fotini Tsibiridou, An Ethnography of Space, Creative Dissent and Reflective Nostalgia in the City Centre of Global Istanbul

(PART VI) Transnational Urbanities

Chapter 24 — Robyn Andrews, Anglo-Indians: Buying into Nationhood?

Chapter 25 — Vytis Ciubrinskas, Transnational Fragmentation of Globality: Eastern-European Post-socialist Strategies in Chicago

Chapter 26 — Sidney A. da Silva, Haitians in Manaus: Challenges of the Sociocultural Insertion Process of Inclusion

Chapter 27 — Christian Giordano, Imagined Multiculturalism in a Malaysian Town: Ideological Constructions and Empirical Evidences

(PART VII) Urbanity beyond the City

Chapter 28 — Liora Sarfati, Urban Development and Vernacular Religious Landscapes in Seoul

Chapter 29 — Andrea Boscoboinik, Becoming Cities, Losing Paradise? Gentrification in the Swiss Alps

Chapter 30 — Margarida Fernandes, Unfolding Lisbon: An Anthropologist Gazes at a Capital City

Chapter 31 — Talbot Rogers, Lost in the Shuffle: Urban African-American Students Cast into a Rural White University in the United States

O autorze

Italo Pardo is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and Founding President of the International Urban Symposium, a non-profit association. He co-edits the journal Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography and the book series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology.

Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent, UK, and a founding member of the International Urban Symposium. She is also Chair of the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology and a co-editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology.

Blurb

These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. These active, engaged researchers have produced essays that avoid abstractions and generalities while engaging with the analytical complexities of ethnographic evidence. Together, they prove the great value of knowledge produced by long-term fieldwork to mainstream academic debates and, more broadly, to society.