A Companion to Urban Anthropology

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.

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The Editor

Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has written extensively on state formation, local politics, ethnic and class relations, the Chinese diaspora, and globalization in urban settings in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the southern United States. His latest book is Getting By among Chinese in Malaysia: An Historical Ethnography of Class and State Formation (2015).

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**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.

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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.

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Preface viii

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction 1

Donald M. Nonini

Part I Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested
13

1 Spatialities 15

Setha M. Low

2 Flows 28

Gary W. McDonogh

3 Community 46

John Clarke

4 Citizenship 65

Sian Lazar

Part II Materializations and Their Imaginaries 83

5 Built Structures and Planning 85

Deborah Pellow and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga

6 Borders 103

Thomas M. Wilson

7 Markets 120

Linda J. Seligmann

8 Cars and Transport 142

Catherine Lutz

Part III Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity 155

9 Class 157

Don Kalb

10 Gender 177

Ida Susser

11 Sexualities 193

Ara Wilson

12 Race 210

Brett Williams

13 Extralegality 222

Alan Smart and Filippo M. Zerilli

Part IV Abstractions of Consequence 239

14 Global Systems and Globalization 241

Jonathan Friedman

15 Governance 255

Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Brash

16 Policing and Security 271

Josiah McC. Heyman

17 Transnationality 291

Nina Glick Schiller

18 Cosmopolitanism 306

Pnina Werbner

Part V Experiencing/Knowing the City in Everyday Life
327

19 Practices of Sociality 329

José Guilherme Cantor Magnani

20 Memory and Narrative 347

Lindsay DuBois

21 Religion 364

Thomas Blom Hansen

Part VI Nature and the City 381

22 Nature 383

Robert Rotenberg

23 Food and Farming 394

Donald M. Nonini

24 Pollution 414

Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe

25 Resilience 428

Stephan Barthel

Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures
447

26 The Commons 449

Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John
Pickles

27 Social Movements 470

Michal Osterweil

28 Futures 486

Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper

Index 498