Sensing the City A Companion to Urban Anthropology

Description

• Standard reference work on urban field research
• Contributions by leding reserchers and young scientist
• With comic-strips by Nele Brönner

Aims and Scope

The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as “man in the street”, shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses.
The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.

CONTENTS

• Frontmatter
• Contents
  Prologue. Learning to Observe in Chicago, Howard S. Becker
• Introduction
• Anthropology in the City
• Urban Ethnography, Peter Jackson
• Norman’s Bay, Nele Brönner
• Inscriptions of Love, Les Back
• Ann Arbor, Nele Brönner
• My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit, Ruth Behar
• Berlin, Nele Brönner
• Carrot-Cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-Class Male Youth Identities in Berlin, Moritz Ege
• London, Nele Brönner
• Anthropology of the City
• The Imaginary of the City, Rolf Lindner / Rolf Lindner
• Millbrook, Nele Brönner
• The City as Melodrama, Jonathan Raban
• Toward a Sensorial Urbanism, Mirko Zardini
• The Go-Along Method, Margarethe Kusenbach
• Chicago’s South Side, Nele Brönner
• Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto, Loïc Wacquant
• Epilogue
• Doing an Ethnography of “Non-Events”, Ehn, Billy / Orvar Löfgren
• Out in the Field – Comics for an Urban Anthropology
• Acknowledgements, References, Authors, Backmatter

192 pages, 30 black & white illustrations / 14 x 19 cm / English