The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography [electronic resource] edited by Italo Pardo, Giuliana B. Prato.
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....
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Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Urban Ethnography Matters
- 2. From Jaffa to New York: The Scope of Urban Anthropology
- 3. Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An Italian Ethnography
- 4. Rethinking the City as Urban Community: Views from South Europe
- 5. The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography: Blessing or Curse?
- The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India
- 7. The Beginnings and the Ends: A ‘Superdiverse’ London Housing Estate
- 8. Everyday Mobility: Encountering Difference
- 9. Betwixt and Between in Beer-Sheva: Consumption and Chronotopes in the Negev
- 10. Shipbuilding Decline and Dubious Futures: A Greek Ethnography of Creative Destruction
- 11. Navigating the Seas of the World of Unemployment in America
- 12. ‘Swimming against the Tide’: Working Class Discourse on Gentrification in Northern Brooklyn
- 13. The Plow and the Stallion: Political Turmoil in a Working-class District of Budapest
- 14. From the Ban on Enjoyment to the Injunction to Enjoy: The Post-industrial City and its New Spaces of Control
- 15. Resistance to Places of Collective Memories: A Rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing
- 16. Multiple Positionality: A Challenge for West African Urbanists
- 17. The Strength of Weak Heritages: Urbanity, Utopias and the Commitment to Intangible Heritage
- 18. Sport and the City: Olympic Games and the Reimagining of East London
- 19. A Revolution of the Urban Lifestyle in China? Urban Politics and Community Experience in Harbin
- 20. Secondary Cities and the Formation of Political Space in West and East Africa
- 21. Two Types of Community-based Organizations in Urban Africa
- 22. Urban Ethnography: Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us
- 23. An Ethnography of Space, Creative Dissent and Reflective Nostalgia in the City Centre of Global Istanbul
- 24. Anglo-Indians: Buying into Nationhood?
- 25. Transnational Fragmentation of Globality: Eastern-European Post-socialist Strategies in Chicago
- 26. Haitians in Manaus: Challenges of the Sociocultural Insertion Process of Inclusion
- 27. Imagined Multiculturalism in a Malaysian Town: Ideological Constructions and Empirical Evidences
- 28. Urban Development and Vernacular Religious Landscapes in Seoul
- 29. Becoming Cities, Losing Paradise? Gentrification in the Swiss Alps
- 30. Unfolding Lisbon: An Anthropologist Gazes at a Capital City
- 31. Lost in the Shuffle: Urban African-American Students Cast into a Rural White University in the United States.