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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, The University of Warwick
Donald M. Nonini (Author)
9781444330106, Wiley
Hardback, published 23 May 2014
536 pages
25.3 x 18 x 3 cm, 0.98 kg
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.” 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.
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
Preface viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Part I Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested 13 1 Spatialities 15 2 Flows 28 3 Community 46 4 Citizenship 65 Part II Materializations and Their Imaginaries 83 5 Built Structures and Planning 85 6 Borders 103 7 Markets 120 8 Cars and Transport 142 Part III Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity 155 9 Class 157 10 Gender 177 11 Sexualities 193 12 Race 210 13 Extralegality 222 Part IV Abstractions of Consequence 239 14 Global Systems and Globalization 241 15 Governance 255 16 Policing and Security 271 17 Transnationality 291 18 Cosmopolitanism 306 Part V Experiencing/Knowing the City in Everyday Life 327 19 Practices of Sociality 329 20 Memory and Narrative 347 21 Religion 364 Part VI Nature and the City 381 22 Nature 383 23 Food and Farming 394 24 Pollution 414 25 Resilience 428 Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 447 26 The Commons 449 27 Social Movements 470 28 Futures 486 Index 498
Donald M. Nonini
Setha M. Low
Gary W. McDonogh
John Clarke
Sian Lazar
Deborah Pellow and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
Thomas M. Wilson
Linda J. Seligmann
Catherine Lutz
Don Kalb
Ida Susser
Ara Wilson
Brett Williams
Alan Smart and Filippo M. Zerilli
Jonathan Friedman
Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Brash
Josiah McC. Heyman
Nina Glick Schiller
Pnina Werbner
José Guilherme Cantor Magnani
Lindsay DuBois
Thomas Blom Hansen
Robert Rotenberg
Donald M. Nonini
Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe
Stephan Barthel
Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles
Michal Osterweil
Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
