The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (569 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Urban Ethnography Matters-Analytical Strength, Theoretical Value and Significance to Society -- Urban Ethnography Today -- A Bumpy Story -- Ethnographers at Work: Analytical Strength and Theoretical Value -- Ethnography Matters -- References -- Part I: Paradigmatic Reflections -- Chapter 2: From Jaffa to New York: The Scope of Urban Anthropology -- Arab Enclave in Tel Aviv-Jaffa -- Israeli Immigrants (Yordim) in New York -- The Gay Synagogue (CBST) in New York -- LGBT Community Services Center in New York -- Ethiopians, Foreign Labour and Refugees in Israeli Neighbourhoods -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 3: Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An Italian Ethnography -- For Ethnographic Analysis -- Introductory Remarks -- The Background: A Summary -- Local Entrepreneurialism: A Worm's-Eye View -- Ruling by Double Standards: The Decay of the Democratic Contract -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Rethinking the City as Urban Community: Views from South Europe -- On Cities and Urban Taxonomies -- Promoting Politics in Brindisi -- Hijacking a New Approach to Politics and to Urban Policies -- Becoming Free Citizens in Post-Socialist Albania -- The Urban Community and the Effects of EU Projects: Corridor VIII -- Conclusion: Bringing Together Urbs, Civitas and Polis -- References -- Chapter 5: The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography: Blessing or Curse? -- Introduction -- A Plethora of Ethnographies: Blessing or a Curse -- Visual Ethnography -- Short-Term and Auto Ethnography -- Digital and Virtual Ethnography -- Public Ethnography -- Summary -- References -- Part II: Everyday Practices and Challenges -- Chapter 6: The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India. Gender, Social Approval and Control in Two Neighbourhoods in Thalassery -- The Production of Gender and Neighbourhood Cultures in Bikaner -- Taking Neighbourhoods Seriously -- References -- Chapter 7: The Beginnings and the Ends: A 'Superdiverse' London Housing Estate -- A Living Tapestry? -- The Pursuit of the New Society -- The People of Providence: Investing and Returning -- Rubbing Along: Proximity and Understandings of Difference -- Commonplace Saturation: 'No One's from Here' -- Axes of Differentiation -- Orderly Occupations? Employment and Opportunities -- Crime and Punishment: Adornment and Negotiation -- Serving Up Tranquillity -- The Profits of Embourgeoisement -- The Tapestry Unpicked -- References -- Chapter 8: Everyday Mobility: Encountering Difference -- Urban Ethnography of Quotidian Mobility -- Method and Data -- Dérives in Brooklyn, London and Paris -- Brooklyn -- London-Part 1 -- London-Part 2 -- Paris -- Old and New Challenges in Researching Everyday Mobility -- References -- Chapter 9: Betwixt and Between in Beer-Sheva: Consumption and Chronotopes in the Negev -- Consuming in the Negev -- Southern Comfort and (In)Security -- Conclusions: Betwixt and Between in Beer-Sheva -- References -- Part III: Coping with Economic and Political Agendas -- Chapter 10: Shipbuilding Decline and Dubious Futures: A Greek Ethnography of Creative Destruction -- Introduction -- The Urban Shipping Context -- The Global Zone -- Experiencing the Decline -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- Chapter 11: Navigating the Seas of the World of Unemployment in the USA -- Introduction -- The Unemployed Professionals of the Middle and Upper Middle Class -- Unemployment for the Upper Lower and Lower Class -- Conclusion -- Implications -- Future Study -- References. Chapter 12: 'Swimming Against the Tide': Working-Class Discourse on Gentrification in North Brooklyn -- Introduction -- The Neighbourhood -- The Scholarly Context -- Doing the Study -- Working-Class Discourse on Gentrification -- June 15, 2011 -- November 3, 2012 -- September 29, 2012 -- October 23, 2012 -- March 2, 2012 -- May 13, 2013 -- October 20, 2011 -- November 3, 2011 -- Take the Money and Run -- Coming Home -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: The Plow and the Stallion: Political Turmoil in a Working-Class District of Budapest -- Csepel and Red Csepel-Two Cities in One -- Local Politics and the Culture of Voting -- From Economic Miracle to Mayhem -- 'The Corrupt and Bloody City' -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: From the Ban on Enjoyment to the Injunction to Enjoy: The Post-Industrial City and Its New Spaces of Control -- The Spirit of Paternalism and the Disciplinarian Industrial Town: The Birth of 'Michelinville' -- The Evolution of Capitalism and the Spirit that Justifies It: From Paternalism Directed at Workers to the Autonomous Enjoyment Promised to Managers -- The Transformation of the Disciplinarian Industrial Town into an 'Attractive and Dynamic City', 'On a Par with the Other Big French Metropolises' -- From the Surveillance of the Workers and the Ban on Enjoyment to the Control of Managers Through Enjoyment -- References -- Part IV: Urban Planning and Local Instances -- Chapter 15: Resistance to Places of Collective Memories: A Rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing -- Introduction -- Urban Heritage in China -- Traditional Neighbourhoods and the Historic Urban Landscape -- Urban Change During the Mao Era -- Urban Change During the Deng Era -- Gulou Neighbourhood: A Preserved Area in a Rapid Transformation Landscape? -- The 2010 and 2012 Gulou Projects -- Local Stakeholders' Narrative and Commitments. Conclusion: Collective Memory in the Historical Urban Landscape -- References -- Chapter 16: Multiple Positionality: A Challenge for West African Urbanists -- Three West African Cities: Bamako, Ouagadougou and Dakar -- Challenges Facing These Cities -- Studying Bureaucrats -- Urbanists and Their Roles -- Urbanists as Planners -- Urbanists as Realists -- Urbanists as Co-citizens -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: The Strength of Weak Heritages: Urbanity, Utopias and the Commitment to Intangible Heritage -- Introduction -- Residential Engagement in 'Weak' or Non-institutional Forms of Urban Heritage -- Villeneuve d'Ascq: 'Weak' Heritage Forms of an Urban Utopia -- From Urban Utopias to Imagination in the Acts of Local Residents -- From a 'Community of Experiences' to a 'Heritage Community of Practice': Villeurbanne's Ecumenical Cultural Centre -- The 50th Anniversary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: Sport and the City: The Olympic Games and the Reimagining of East London -- Introduction -- Demarcating Legacy -- Setting Up Camp -- Aspirational Thinking -- Building Research Fences -- Magic Beans -- Wide-Lens Urban Renewal -- Back to Beginnings -- Raison d'être? -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 19: A Revolution of the Urban Lifestyle in China? An Ethnography of a Harbin Neighbourhood -- A Civilizational History of the Chinese Urban Lifestyle -- Regional and Local Specificities of Manchuria and Harbin -- The Layout of Urban Community Lifestyle in Harbin up to the 2000s -- A Problematic Process of Urban Transformation: The Complexity of Renovation Policies -- The Development of a New Living Environment -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- Part V: Change and Grassroots Dynamics -- Chapter 20: Secondary Cities and the Formation of Political Space in West and East Africa -- Introduction. Secondary Cities in Africa: A Contextualization -- Secondary Cities and Their Significance for Anthropology -- Researching the Urban -- Two Illustrations from East and West Africa -- Korhogo, Côte d'Ivoire -- A Trade Hub and Its Destiny Under Rebel Domination -- Neighbourhoods as Political Spaces -- Kisumu, Kenya -- Housing and the Emergence of New Political Spaces in Kisumu, Kenya -- Lolwe Estate -- The Emergence of Urban Political Spaces -- Urban Governance as Specific Formations of Political Spaces -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 21: Two Types of Community Organization in Urban Africa -- Introduction -- Two Types of Community Organization in Urban Africa -- The Ideological Origin of Community-Based Organizations -- A Type of CBO from an Everyday-Life Perspective -- The State and the Urban Community: Three Types of Relationship -- The Lack of a Supportive Relationship: Vanishing Public Services -- The Expansion of an Oppositional Relationship: The Oppression of Urban Residents by the State -- State Indifference and the Self-Help Strategy -- Self-Help City -- The Creative Construction of Communality Among the Urban Poor -- The Infiltration of CBOs into the Global Development Strategy -- CBOs' Altering of the Livelihood Strategy -- Conclusion: The Potential of Community Organizations Based on Livelihood Pragmatism -- References -- Chapter 22: Urban Ethnography: Nothing About Us Without Us Is for Us -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing Anthropology and Ethnography Within Urban Societies -- Subjectivity -- Representation -- Identity Formations -- Urban Ethnography and Resident Researcher -- Inner-City Los Angeles: The Case for Watts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 23: An Ethnography of Space, Creative Dissent and Reflective Nostalgia in the City Centre of Global Istanbul -- Introduction. 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