The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography

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These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. These active, engaged researchers have produced essays that avoid abstractions and generalities while engaging with the analytical complexities of ethnographic evidence. Together, they prove the great value of knowledge produced by long-term fieldwork to mainstream academic debates and, more broadly, to society. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction: Urban Ethnography Matters—Analytical Strength, Theoretical Value and Significance to Society (Italo Pardo, Giuliana B. Prato)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 From Jaffa to New York: The Scope of Urban Anthropology (Moshe Shokeid)....Pages 23-34 Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An Italian Ethnography (Italo Pardo)....Pages 35-52 Rethinking the City as Urban Community: Views from South Europe (Giuliana B. Prato)....Pages 53-69 The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography: Blessing or Curse? (Jerome Krase)....Pages 71-91 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India (Janaki Abraham)....Pages 95-111 The Beginnings and the Ends: A ‘Superdiverse’ London Housing Estate (James Rosbrook-Thompson, Gary Armstrong)....Pages 113-131 Everyday Mobility: Encountering Difference (Timothy Shortell)....Pages 133-151 Betwixt and Between in Beer-Sheva: Consumption and Chronotopes in the Negev (Fran Markowitz)....Pages 153-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Shipbuilding Decline and Dubious Futures: A Greek Ethnography of Creative Destruction (Manos Spyridakis)....Pages 171-187 Navigating the Seas of the World of Unemployment in the USA (Judy Arnold)....Pages 189-204 ‘Swimming Against the Tide’: Working-Class Discourse on Gentrification in North Brooklyn (Judith N. DeSena)....Pages 205-219 The Plow and the Stallion: Political Turmoil in a Working-Class District of Budapest (László Kürti)....Pages 221-240 From the Ban on Enjoyment to the Injunction to Enjoy: The Post-Industrial City and Its New Spaces of Control (Corine Védrine)....Pages 241-255 Front Matter ....Pages 257-257 Resistance to Places of Collective Memories: A Rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing (Florence Graezer Bideau)....Pages 259-278 Multiple Positionality: A Challenge for West African Urbanists (Dolores Koenig)....Pages 279-295 The Strength of Weak Heritages: Urbanity, Utopias and the Commitment to Intangible Heritage (Michel Rautenberg)....Pages 297-313 Sport and the City: The Olympic Games and the Reimagining of East London (Iain Lindsay)....Pages 315-330 A Revolution of the Urban Lifestyle in China? An Ethnography of a Harbin Neighbourhood (Kamel Labdouni)....Pages 331-347 Front Matter ....Pages 349-349 Secondary Cities and the Formation of Political Space in West and East Africa (Lucy Koechlin, Till Förster)....Pages 351-368 Two Types of Community Organization in Urban Africa (Motoji Matsuda)....Pages 369-385 Urban Ethnography: Nothing About Us Without Us Is for Us (Cynthia Gonzalez)....Pages 387-404 An Ethnography of Space, Creative Dissent and Reflective Nostalgia in the City Centre of Global Istanbul (Fotini Tsibiridou)....Pages 405-426 Front Matter ....Pages 427-427 Anglo-Indians: Buying into Nationhood? (Robyn Andrews)....Pages 429-445 Transnational Fragmentation of Globality: Eastern-European Post-Socialist Strategies in Chicago (Vytis Ciubrinskas)....Pages 447-464 Haitians in Manaus: Challenges of the Sociocultural Process of Inclusion (Sidney Antonio da Silva)....Pages 465-477 Imagined Multiculturalism in a Malaysian Town: Ideological Constructions and Empirical Evidences (Christian Giordano)....Pages 479-495 Front Matter ....Pages 497-497 Urban Development and Vernacular Religious Landscapes in Seoul (Liora Sarfati)....Pages 499-517 Becoming Cities, Losing Paradise? Gentrification in the Swiss Alps (Andrea Boscoboinik)....Pages 519-536 Unfolding Lisbon: An Anthropologist Gazes at a Capital City (Margarida Fernandes)....Pages 537-552 Lost in the Shuffle: Urban African American Students Cast into a Rural White University in the USA (Talbot W. Rogers)....Pages 553-561 Back Matter ....Pages 563-575