The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography

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 fieldworkor 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.

Presents a range of topics, such as work, employment, and informality; everyday life and community relations; marginalization, gender, family, kinship, religion and ethnicity; and political strategies and social movements in historical and transnational perspectives Points to new topical debates and charts new theoretical directions Encourages reflection on the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality to mainstream academic debates

Auteur
Italo Pardo is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and Founding President of the International Urban Symposium, a non-profit association. He co-edits the journal Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography and the book series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology.
Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent, UK, and a founding member of the International Urban Symposium. She is also Chair of the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology and a co-editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology.

Contenu

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 theInjunction 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. Haitiansin 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.