The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City

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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an ‘engaged’ approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban issues, each chapter covers key theoretical and methodological concerns alongside rich ethnographic case study material. The volume is an essential reference for students and researchers in urban anthropology, as well as of interest for those in related disciplines, such as urban studies, sociology, and geography. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: engaging the city and the future PART I Precarity 1 Precarious detachment youth and modes of operating in Hyderabad and Jakarta 2 Precarious labor, inequality and public space: trash pickers and ambulant vendors in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 Homelessness and the city 4 Disproportionate barriers and challenges: urban minority male life cycles in Philadelphia PART II Displacement and mobility 5 Displaced misplaced re-placed: in search of an understanding of 'race' and urban change – evidence from Cape Town 6 Affect, race, and generative fieldsites in urban anthropology 7 (Im)mobilizing Bangkok: towards an ethnography of urban circulation 8 Moving through the contested city: automobility and civic culture in Beirut, Lebanon PART III Security and insecurity 9 Security and technology 10 Airports, from vital systems to nervous systems 11 Security and insecurity in fragile urban fabrics: a suburb in Norway 12 Making sense of the New Europe: national anxieties and everyday life in Amsterdam PART IV Environment and sustainability 13 Environmental gentrification: sustainability and the just city 14 Incremental gentrification: upgrading and the predicaments of making (Indian) cities slum-free 15 Tackling pollution with care: everyday politics and citizen engagement in Auckland, New Zealand 16 Engaging with sustainable urban mobilities in Western Europe: urban utopias seen through cycling in Copenhagen PART V Citizenship rights and social justice 17 Racialized citizenship and the modern American city, ethnographically considered 18 A right to the city? housing rights and liberal property regimes in Santiago, Chile 19 Neighborhood grassroots organizations and rights to the city in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 20 Marxist urbanism meets the specter of communism: anthropological engagements with master-planned projects and mass dispossession in Ho Chi Minh City PART VI Built environment and spatial governance 21 Beyond neoliberalism: the High Line and urban governance 22 The semiotics of urbanness: lifestyle centers and the commodified city 23 Governing through garbage: waste infrastructure breakdown and gendered apathy in Vietnam 24 African materiality and the house 25 The past and the future of ritualized sociality in open urban spaces: the corso in Southeastern Europe PART VII Financialization and privatization 26 Financialization and shifting urban growth regimes in Hong Kong and China 27 Guilty subjects: new geographies of blame in the aftermath of the US housing market collapse 28 21st Century City form in Asia: the private city PART VIII Heritage preservation and cultural expression 29 Ethics and profits: economic development, hospitality, and the preservation of urban heritage 30 Gender, art, and the reshaping of the urban in Amman, Jordan 31 Dancing, design methods and the politics of space in Kampala: an accidental ethnography 32 Lisbon is black: an argument of presence 33 Brazilian popular music and the city Index