The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography [electronic resource] /
Pardo, Italo.editor.
Prato, Giuliana B.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
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.
Ethnology.
Sociology, Urban.
Human Geography.
Social Anthropology.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Ethnology.
Human Geography.