| Description |
1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and boxes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Why Urban Anthropology? -- Situating Urban Anthropology -- Historical Developments -- Urban Anthropology's Predecessors -- Early Urban Anthropology -- Late Twentieth-Century 'Turns' -- Anthropologists and the Contemporary City -- Doing Urban Anthropology -- Not Your Usual Field? -- Urban Methods -- Studying Up and Studying Through -- Mobile Methods and Mental Mapping -- Structure of the Book -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- References |
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Part I At Home in the City? -- Chapter 2 Urban Places -- Place-making, Place Attachment and the Politics of Belonging -- Discursive Forms of Place-Making -- Sensory and Affective Forms of Place-Making -- Sacred Place-Making -- Buildings -- Architecture -- Domestic Space -- Neighborhoods -- Low-income and Marginalized Settlements -- Segregation and Displacement -- Transnational Urban Places -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 3 Urban Mobilities -- Mobility and Identities -- Walking the City -- Urban Automobility |
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Mobility and Inequality -- Disability -- Traffic -- The Cultural Politics of Mobility -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 4 Social Life in Public Space -- Contextualizing Public Space -- Public Social Life in Context -- Intersectional Positioning -- Everyday Spatial Regimes -- The Micropolitics of Social Life in Public -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Part II Crafting Urban Lives and Lifestyles -- Chapter 5 Urban Economies |
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From National Development to Neoliberal Restructuring -- Urban Industries, Labor and Class Formation -- Mining Towns -- Post-industrial Landscapes -- The Gig Economy and Platform Labor -- Informality and Formality in the Urban Economy -- Urban Economic Places -- The Market -- The Factory -- The Street -- The Home -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 6 Consumption, Leisure and Lifestyles -- Consumption and Distinction -- Cultural Capital -- Consumer Citizenship -- Consumption, Leisure and Space |
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Creating New Spaces of Leisure and Consumption -- Leisure Geographies -- Consuming Urban Space -- Urban Lifestyles, Scenes and Popular Culture -- Urban Popular Culture, Place-Making and Marginalization -- Urban Fashion, Cosmopolitanism and Modernity -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 7 Neoliberalism and Its Discontents -- Neoliberal Cities -- The Global City and Its Inequalities -- The Entrepreneurial City -- Neoliberal Urban Policies and the Poor -- Evicted -- Austerity and Solidarity -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Further Reading |
| Subject |
Urban anthropology.
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Urban anthropology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
de Koning, Anouk
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| ISBN |
9781000826142 |
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1000826147 |
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