Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people.
This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban...
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while e...
Winner, Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000 Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001 Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001
Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale--almost every aspect of Latin American life has its place and time in the public plaza. In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary study, Setha M. Low explores the interplay of space...
Winner, Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000 Honorable Mention, Ho...
Since the 1980s, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002, it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighbourhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend? Behind the Gates is Setha Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing families in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas, Low provides an inside view of gated communities to help explain why people flee to these enclaves. Parents with children, young married couples,...
Since the 1980s, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002, it is estimated that one in ...
In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002, it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighbourhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend? Behind the Gates is Setha Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing families in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas, Low provides an inside view of gated communities to help explain why people flee to these enclaves. Parents with children, young married...
In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002, it is estimated tha...
Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but instead centres of private commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. "The Politics of Public Space" extends the focus of current work on public space to include a consideration of the transnational - in the sense of moving people and transformations in the nation or state - to expand our definition of the 'public' and public space. Ultimately, public spaces are one of the...
Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Pub...
The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the conceptual and material dimensions of space are central to the production of social life.
Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place
Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life
Includes introduction that synthesizes existing...
The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the co...
The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the conceptual and material dimensions of space are central to the production of social life.
Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place
Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life
Includes introduction that synthesizes existing...
The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the co...
Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. "The New Urban Anthropology Reader" corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.Five images of the city the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban...
Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory an...
This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork...
This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial...
This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork...
This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial...
