ISBN:
9781118378625
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9781444330106
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1118378644
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1118378628
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1306532264
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1118378652
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9781118378649
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9781118378625
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9781306532266
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9781118378656
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 515 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology 26
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to Urban Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A companion to urban anthropology
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Stadt
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Sozialanthropologie
Abstract:
"The city is becoming the basic currency of human - and non-human - life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes. This volume navigates the anthropology of this medium with the greatest aplomb." Nigel Thrift, The University of Warwick
Abstract:
A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents a collection of original essays from international scholars on key issues in urban anthropology and broader cross-disciplinary urban studies.Features newly commissioned essays from 35 leading international scholars in urban and global studiesIncludes essays in classic areas of concern to urban anthropologists such as built structures and urban planning, community, security, markets, and raceCovers emergent areas in the field including: 21st-century cities borders, citizenship, sustainability, and urban sexualities
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; What Are the Essays About?; In Search of Meta-Knowledge in Urban Anthropology: Dissonant and Generative Connections; References; PART I: Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested; CHAPTER 1: Spatialities: The Rebirth of Urban Anthropology through Studies of Urban Space; Introduction; Methodology; History and Theoretical Background; The Spatial Turn; Contested Urban Space; Racialized Space; Landscapes of Fear; Global, Transnational and Translocal Spaces; Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 2: FlowsWorlds in Flux; Commodity Circuits: Goods in Movement; People Movers; Flows of Ideas: Languages, Religions, and the City as Flow; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 3: Community; Community in the Anthropological Landscape; The Elusive Community; Community as Governable Space; The Obscure Object of Desire?; References; CHAPTER 4: Citizenship; Political Action and Citizenship Practice in Urban Spaces; The Urban as an Object of Citizenship Action as Well as Its Site; References; PART II: Materializations and Their Imaginaries; CHAPTER 5: Built Structures and Planning; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Premodern Cities: Variations on a Theme of the Cosmos, Market, and Religious/Political AuthorityPremodern Cities of China and South Asia; Premodern African Cities; Walls, Defense, Boundaries; Gender Inequalities in Premodern Cities; The Colonial City; Spanish and Portuguese Cities of Empire, 1600s-1800s; African and South Asian Colonial Cities: Articulating European Obsessions with "the Natives" and Disease; Modernist Cities; Brasília, Modernist City Par Excellence; Modernist Cities Around the World; Modernism's Shortcomings, Attempted State Solutions, Unplanned Growth; The Postmodern City
Description / Table of Contents:
Postmodernist Aesthetic in Class SuppressionPostmodernist Obsessions with Shopping and the Consumption Experience; Gentrification, Branding, and the Policing of "Undesirables"; Gated Communities and the Cultural Production of Fear; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 6: Borders: Cities, Boundaries, and Frontiers; State Borders: Sites, Symbols, Institutions, and Practices; Border Cities; Bordering and Bordered Cities; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 7: Markets; The Political and Cultural Economy of Markets; Exchange Is Not the Same As Markets; Market Struggles and the Structuring of Social Space
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender, Race, Ethnicity in the MarketBrokerage, Mediation, Networks; Modernity and Tactics of Resistance: The Knowledge of the Streets; How and Why Traders Perform; Markets and Language Aesthetics; Markets and Sight-Seeing; Markets and Festivals; Market Spaces of Formality-Informality: False Dualisms; Brave New Markets; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 8: Cars and Transport: The Car-Made City; Inequality; Modernity; The Struggle for Sustainable Mobility Systems; References; PART III: Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity; CHAPTER 9: Class
Description / Table of Contents:
Class: The Urban Commons and the Empty Sign of "The Middle Class" in the Twenty-First Century
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1002/9781118378625
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