A Companion to Urban Anthropology
Published on 23. May 2014
Book
Hardback
532 pages
978-1-4443-3010-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents a collection of original essays from international scholars on key issues in urban anthropology and broader cross-disciplinary urban studies.
* Features newly commissioned essays from 35 leading international scholars in urban and global studies
* Includes essays in classic areas of concern to urban anthropologists such as built structures and urban planning, community, security, markets, and race
* Covers emergent areas in the field including: 21st-century cities borders, citizenship, sustainability, and urban sexualities
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 25.2 cm
Width: 18 cm
Thickness: 3 cm
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-3010-6 (9781444330106)
Schweitzer Classification
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Donald M. Nonini
A Companion to Urban Anthropology
E-Book
03/2014
Wiley-Blackwell
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Donald M. Nonini
A Companion to Urban Anthropology
E-Book
03/2014
Wiley-Blackwell
€141.99
Available for download
Person
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).
Content
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-Zuniga
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
Jose 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 Duerr and Rivke Jaffe
25 Resilience 428
Stephan Barthel
Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 447
26 The Commons 449
Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles
27 Social Movements 470
Michal Osterweil
28 Futures 486
Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper
Index 498
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-Zuniga
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
Jose 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 Duerr and Rivke Jaffe
25 Resilience 428
Stephan Barthel
Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 447
26 The Commons 449
Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles
27 Social Movements 470
Michal Osterweil
28 Futures 486
Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper
Index 498