The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography

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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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