Theorizing the City

by Setha M. Low
Theorizing the City
Author: Setha M. Low
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813527208
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Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City

by Setha Low
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City
Author: Setha Low
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317296974
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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides 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, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban issues, each chapter covers key theoretical and methodological concerns alongside rich ethnographic case study material. The volume is an essential reference for students and researchers in urban anthropology, as well as of interest for those in related disciplines, such as urban studies, sociology, and geography.

Anthropology in the City

by Dr Giuliana B Prato
Anthropology in the City
Author: Dr Giuliana B Prato
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1409461181
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With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. With essays from experts on wide-ranging ethnographic research from fields as diverse as China, Europe, India, Latin and North America and South East Asia, this book demonstrates the contribution that empirically-based anthropological analysis can make to our understanding of our increasingly urban world.

Cities of the United States

by Leith Mullings
Cities of the United States
Author: Leith Mullings
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780231050012
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Utilizing the strengths of traditional ethnographic approaches, the authors of this provocative volume of original essays analyze contemporary urban problems in the United States.

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

by Donald M. Nonini
A Companion to Urban Anthropology
Author: Donald M. Nonini
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118378652
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A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Urban Anthropology “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, University of Warwick A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author’s original research along with findings of other urbanists. Classic issues such as built structures and urban planning, community, markets, and race lead to emergent areas of study including borders, sexualities, nature, extralegality, and resilience and sustainability. A Companion to Urban Anthropology offers revealing insights into the complex forces that continue to shape the urban experience.

Introducing Urban Anthropology

by Rivke Jaffe
Introducing Urban Anthropology
Author: Rivke Jaffe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317363981
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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first century urban anthropological research? What are the possible future directions in the field? The chapters cover topics such as urban mobilities, place-making and public space, production and consumption, politics and governance. These are illustrated by lively case studies drawn from a diverse range of urban settings in the global North and South. Accessible yet theoretically incisive, Introducing Urban Anthropology will be a valuable resource for anthropology students as well as of interest to those working in urban studies and related disciplines such as sociology and geography.

The Modernist City

by James Holston
The Modernist City
Author: James Holston
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1989-09-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0226349799
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The utopian design and organization of Brasília—the modernist new capital of Brazil—were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.

Sensing the City

by Anja Schwanhäußer
Sensing the City
Author: Anja Schwanhäußer
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035607354
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The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.

Anthropology of the City

by Edwin Eames
Anthropology of the City
Author: Edwin Eames
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1977
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:
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