The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City

Herausgeber: Low, Setha

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an 'engaged' approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, including security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering insight

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9780367659752
• ISBN-10: 0367659751
• Artikelnr.: 59990148

Autorenporträt

Setha Low is Professor of Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography), Environmental Psychology, and Women's Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. Her most recent books are Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place (2017), and Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance and Control (2019), edited with M. Maguire. She is former President of the American Anthropological Association and served as Deputy Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Engaging the City and the Future Setha Low Part I: Precarity
1. Precarious Detachment: Youth Modes of Operating in Hyderabad and Jakata
AdbouMaliq Simone 2. Precarious Labor, Inequality and Public Space: Trash
Collectors and Ambulant Vendors in Buenos Aires, Argentina Mariano Perelman
3. Homelessness and the City Tom Hall 4. Disproportionate Barriers and
Challenges: Urban Minority Male Life Cycles in Philadelphia Bill McKinney
Part II: Displacement and Mobility 5. Displaced, Misplaced, Re-placed: In
Search of an Understanding of 'Race' and Urbanity - Evidence from Cape Town
Annika Teppo 6. Affect, Race and Generative Fieldsites in Urban
Anthropology Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Ulla Berg 7. (Im)mobilizing Bangkok:
Toward an Ethnography of Urban Circulation Claudio Sopranzetti 8. Moving
through the Contested City: Automobility and Civic Culture in Beirut,
Lebanon Kristin Monroe Part III: Security and Insecurity 9. Security and
Technology Carolina Frossard and Rivke Jaffe 10. Airports, from Vital
Systems to Nervous Systems Mark Maguire and Réka Pétercsák 11. Security and
Insecurity in Fragile Urban Fabrics: A Suburb in Norway Thomas Hylland
Eriksen 12. Making Sense of the New Europe: National Anxieties and Everyday
Life in Amsterdam Anouk de Koning Part IV: Environment and Sustainability
13. Environmental Gentrification: Sustainability and the Just City Melissa
Checker 14. Incremental Gentrification: Upgrading and Predicaments of
Making (Indian) Cities Slum Free Ursula Rao 15. Tackling Pollution with
Care: Everyday Politics and Citizen Engagement in Auckland, New Zealand
Eveline Dürr and Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer 16. Engaging with Sustainable
Urban Mobilities in Western Europe: Urban Utopias Seen Through Cycling in
Copenhagen Malene Freudendal-Pedersen Part V: Citizenship, Rights, and
Social Justice 17. Racialized Citizenship in the Modern American City,
Ethnographically Considered John Jackson 18. A Right to the City? Housing
Rights and Liberal Property Regimes in Santiago, Chile Edward Murphy 19.
Neighbourhood Grassroots Organizations and Rights to the City in Salvador,
Bahia, Brazil Maria Gabriela Hita and John Gledhill 20. Marxist Urbanism
Meets the Spector of Communism: Anthropological Engagements with
Master-Planned Projects and Mass Dispossession in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet
Nam Erik Harms Part VI: Built Environment and Spatial Governance 21. Beyond
Neoliberalism: The High Line and Urban Governance Julian Brash 22. The
Semiotics of Urbanness: Lifestyle Centers and the Commodified City
Gabriella Modan 23. Governing Through Garbage: Waste Infrastructure
Breakdown and Gendered Apathy in Vietnam Christina Schwenkel 24. African
Materiality: The Sociospatial Analysis of Urban Housing Deborah Pellow 25.
The Past and the Future of Ritualized Sociality in Open Urban Spaces: The
Corso in Southeastern Europe Vesna Vucinic Neskovic Part VII:
Financialization and Privatization 26. Financialization and Shifting Urban
Growth Regimes in Hong Kong and China Alan Smart 27. Guilty Subjects: New
Geographies of Blame in the Aftermath of the U.S. Housing Market Collapse
Jeff Maskovsky 28. 21st Century City Form in Asia: The Private City Tom
Looser Part VIII: Heritage Preservation and Cultural Expression 29. Ethics
and Profits: Economic Development, Hospitality and the Preservation of
Urban Heritage Michael Herzfeld 30. Gender, Art and the Reshaping of the
Urban in Amman, Jordan Aseel Sawalha 31. Dancing, Design Methods and the
Politics of Space in Kampala: An Accidental Ethnography Elizabeth Chin 32.
Lisbon is Black: An Argument of Presence Derek Pardue 33. Brazilian Popular
Music and the City Ruben Oliven